cambra
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Compare Occitan cambra and chambra. Doublet of càmera, a latinism.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cambra f (plural cambres)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cambra” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “cambra”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “cambra” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “cambra” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Verb edit
cambra
- third-person singular past historic of cambrer
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp”). Cognate with Portuguese cãibra and Spanish calambre; see also French crampe. Compare also Italian cambra, French cambre, from a different origin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cambra m (plural cambras)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “cambra” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “cambra” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “cambra” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French cambre, from Picard or Norman, from Old Northern French, derived from Latin camur (“curved, bent”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cambra f (plural cambre)
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkam.bra/, [ˈkämbrä]
Noun edit
cambra f (genitive cambrae); first declension
- medieval spelling of camera
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cambra | cambrae |
Genitive | cambrae | cambrārum |
Dative | cambrae | cambrīs |
Accusative | cambram | cambrās |
Ablative | cambrā | cambrīs |
Vocative | cambra | cambrae |
References edit
- cambra in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “cambra”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 118/1
Old Occitan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French chambre.
Noun edit
cambra f (oblique plural cambras, nominative singular cambra, nominative plural cambras)
Descendants edit
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “camera”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 130
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of cámara.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cambra f (plural cambras) (obsolete)
- room
- Synonym: cuarto
- bedroom
- Synonym: habitación
Further reading edit
- “cambra”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014