different between camera vs undercranked

English

Etymology

From Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”). Doublet of chamber.

(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?kæm???/, /?kæm??/
• Hyphenation: ca?me?ra, cam?era

Noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ)

1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
   • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete

     I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.

3. A vaulted room.
4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Derived terms

Related terms

• camerated

Descendants

Translations

Further reading

• camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• camera in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• camera in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• camera at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Macrae

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?.m?.ra?/
• Hyphenation: ca?me?ra

Noun

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

1. camera

Derived terms

• cameralens
• cameraman
• cameraploeg
• cameraval
• cameravrouw
• digitale camera
• fotocamera
• spiegelreflexcamera
• videocamera

Related terms

• camcorder
• kamer
• webcam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kamera
• ? Indonesian: kamera

French

Verb

camera

1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/

Noun

camera (plural cameras)

1. room, chamber

Italian

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára). Doublet of zambra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/

Noun

camera f (plural camere)

1. room; chamber (all senses)
2. bedroom
3. assembly, parliament
4. camera (for taking moving pictures)

   Synonym: telecamera

Derived terms

Related terms

• camerlengo

Descendants

• ? Arabic: ????? (qamara, qamra)
• ? Serbo-Croatian: kamara / ??????

Anagrams

• macera

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

camera f (plural cameres)

1. chamber, room

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Alternative forms

• camara (classical)
• cambra (medieval)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?käm??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?k??m???]

Noun

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
   2. A deliberative body.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• camella
• camera obscura (New Latin)
  • ? Dutch: camera
    • Afrikaans: kamera
    • ? Indonesian: kamera
  • ? English: camera (see there for further descendants)
  • ? German: Kamera
  • ? Swedish: kamera
• concamer?

Descendants

See also descendants at camara.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

References

• camera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• chamber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Etymology 2

A regularly conjugated form of camer? (verb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra?/, [?käm??ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ka.me.ra/, [?k??m???]

Verb

camer?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of camer?

Romanian

Noun

camera f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of camer?

Spanish

Adjective

camera f

1. feminine singular of camero

Noun

camera f (plural cameras, masculine camero, masculine plural cameros)

1. female equivalent of camero

English

Adjective

undercranked (comparative more undercranked, superlative most undercranked)

1. (film) Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.

Verb

undercranked

1. simple past tense and past participle of undercrank

Related terms

• undercrank