different between chambre vs cambre

English

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. Obsolete spelling of chamber

Anagrams

• becharm, chamber

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. room

French

Etymology

From Old French chambre, cambre, from Latin cambra, Medieval spelling of Latin camera (“room”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “something with an arched cover: a covered wagon, a covered boat, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of caméra, a borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?/

Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     ...before a in French an original c has the sound sh, and is spelt ch, as in champ (campus), chambre (camera).

   1. A room.
   2. A hotel room.
   3. A bedroom.
   4. A house of a parliament.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Antillean Creole: chanm
• Haitian Creole: chanm
• ? Norman: chambre, chàmbre

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, camara, from Ancient Greek ??????? (kamár?).

Pronunciation

• (retention of schwa) IPA^(key): /?t?a?mbr?/, /?t?ambr?/, /?t?au?mbr?/
• IPA^(key): /?t?a?mb?r/, /?t?amb?r/, /?t?au?mb?r/

Noun

chambre (plural chambres)

1. room; chamber

Alternative forms

• chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber

Derived terms

• chambre forene

Descendants

• English: chamber
• Scots: chaumer
  • ? Scottish Gaelic: seòmar
• Yola: chaamer

References

• “chaumbre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Adjective

chambre

1. Alternative form of caumber

Norman

Alternative forms

• chàmbre (Guernsey)

Etymology

Borrowed from French chambre, from Old French chambre, from Latin camera.

Pronunciation

Noun

chambre f (plural chambres)

1. (Jersey) bedroom

Old French

Alternative forms

• cambre, chanbre, canbre

Etymology

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

Noun

chambre f (oblique plural chambres, nominative singular chambre, nominative plural chambres)

1. room
2. chamber (of a building)
3. bedroom, sleeping quarters

Derived terms

• camberete (Old Northern French)
  • ? Middle Dutch: cambret
    • ? Middle French: cabaret
      • French: cabaret

Descendants

• French: chambre
  • Antillean Creole: chanm
  • Haitian Creole: chanm
  • ? Norman: chambre, chàmbre
• ? Irish: seomra
• ? Middle Armenian: ????? (?amb?)
• ? Middle English: chambre, chaumbre, chaumber, chaumer, chamer, chamber
  • English: chamber
  • Scots: chaumer
    • ? Scottish Gaelic: seòmar
  • Yola: chaamer

English

Noun

cambre (plural cambres)

1. Obsolete form of camber.
   • 1858, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, page #613:

     To the southward of this is another entrance which opens into a port or cambre for boats and lumps, and then into a smaller basin?de?flot for the smaller steamers, and for the loading of lighters with provisions, &c.

2. Alternative spelling of cambré

Anagrams

• camber, cembra

French

Verb

cambre

1. first-person singular present indicative of cambrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of cambrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cambrer
5. second-person singular imperative of cambrer

Italian

Noun

cambre f

1. plural of cambra

Old French

Noun

cambre f (oblique plural cambres, nominative singular cambre, nominative plural cambres)

1. Alternative form of chambre