different between camus vs camas

English

Noun

camus

1. Obsolete form of camis.

Anagrams

• CUSMA, MUSCA, Musca, USMCA, musac, sumac

French

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.my/

Adjective

camus (feminine singular camuse, masculine plural camus, feminine plural camuses)

1. flat-nosed

Further reading

• “camus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

Likely derived from Ancient Greek, compare Doric Ancient Greek ????? (k?mós), Attic Ancient Greek ????? (k?mós, “muzzle, nose-bag; face-mask; a female ornament”).

Noun

c?mus m (genitive c?m?); second declension

1. (doubtful) a punishment device, perhaps a kind of collar for the neck
2. (doubtful) a kind of collar for the neck, a necklace or neckband
3. (Late Latin) collar, muzzle (as for a horse)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Quotations

For the sense punishment device; necklace:

In Quintus Horatius Flaccus' Satirae or Sermones, liber I, the reading of this word is doubtful: it may either have been c?mus as a punishment device, or Cadmus as a proper noun. Compare for example:

• Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Sermonen, vol. I, ed. Hermann Fritzsche, Leipzig, 1875, page 154f.:

  „Tune, Syri, Damae, aut Dionysi filius, audes
  Deicere de saxo civ?s aut tradere camo?“

• Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, page 78f.:

  "tune, Syri, Damae aut Dionysi filius, audes
  deicere de saxo civis aut tradere Cadmo?"

  "Do you, the son of a Syrus, a Dama, a Dionysius, dare to fling from the rock or to hand over to Cadmus citizens of Rome?"

In Lucius Attius or Accius as cited by Nonius Marcellus, c?mus is interpreted as a punishment device or a necklace. See for example:

• Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina, p. 200, line 16f. In: Wallace M. Lindsay ed., Nonii Marcelli de conpendiosa doctrina, vol. I, LL. I–III, Leipzig, 1903, page 294:

  Collus masculino Accius Epigonis (302):
  . quid cesso ire ád eam? em, praesto ést: camo collúm gravem.

• Otto Ribbeck, Scaenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta. Vol. I, Leipzig, 1897, page 202f.:

  <Séd> quid cesso ire ád eam? em praesto est: <ém> camo collúm grauem!

  Non. 200, 15 'collus masculino Accius Epigono . . .'

• Tr. E. H. Warmington, Remains of Old Latin, vol. II, 1936, page 426f. (Lucius Accius (or Atticus), Epigoni):

  287
  Nonius, 200, 16: ' Collus' masculino . . .–
    Alcmeo
  . . . Quid cesso ire ad eam? Em praesto est: camo
    collum graven!

  287
  Alcmaeon sees Eriphyle decked with the necklace with which she was bribed:
  Nonius: 'Collus' in the masculine . . .–
    Alcmaeon
      I'll not
  Delay to approach her. See! She is at hand.
  How heavy with the neck-band is her throat!

Descendants

• Italian: camo

References

• camus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 251
• camus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Old Prussian

Noun

camus

1. bumblebee
   • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary

     Hu?mele   Camus

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Chinook Jargon qamaš, qawaš (“camas”), from Nootka qawaš (“camas”), or perhaps from Nez Perce qém?es (“camas”).

Noun

camas (plural camases or camas)

1. Any of the North American flowering plants of the genus Camassia.
   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "James' Bay and Dallas Road," [1]

     There were stretches of fine, soft grass on the cliffs and great patches of camass and buttercups.

Alternative forms

• cammas, camass, quamash

Derived terms

• Camas County
• death camas

Translations

Etymology 2

cama +? -s

Noun

camas

1. plural of cama

Anagrams

• AACSM

French

Verb

camas

1. second-person singular past historic of camer

Latin

Noun

cam?s

1. accusative plural of cama

Norman

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

camas m (uncountable)

1. (Guernsey) noise

Portuguese

Noun

camas

1. plural of cama

Spanish

Noun

camas f pl

1. plural of cama