camera
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). 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 edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era
Noun edit
camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)
- (photography) A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
- The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
- (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:
- If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
- 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.
- A vaulted room.
- A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Derived terms edit
- aerial camera
- Anger camera
- Baker-Nunn camera
- body camera
- body-worn camera
- box camera
- camcorder
- camera angle
- camera clara
- camera club
- camera flash
- camera fright
- camera left
- camera lucida
- cameraman
- camera move
- camera obscura
- camera phone
- camera ready
- camera rehearsal
- camera right
- camera roll
- camera shake
- camera shot
- camera-shy
- camera trap
- camera-worker
- camera worker
- candid camera
- ciné camera
- cine camera
- cold camera
- compact camera
- digital camera
- digital still camera
- document camera
- fan camera
- game camera
- gamma camera
- in camera
- instant camera
- IP camera
- Land camera
- lightfield camera
- lights, camera, action
- magazine camera
- make love to the camera
- mirrorless camera
- movie camera
- off camera
- off-camera
- on-camera
- on camera
- piece to camera
- pin camera
- pinhole camera
- red-light camera
- red light camera
- reflex camera
- Schmidt camera
- scintillation camera
- security camera
- selfie camera
- speed camera
- stereo camera
- streak camera
- stump camera
- surveillance camera
- the camera never lies
- thermal camera
- trail camera
- tri-camera photography
- video camera
- view camera
- wearable camera
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Tok Pisin: kamera
- → Arabic: كاميرا (kāmērā)
- → Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)
- → Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)
- → Catalan: càmera
- → French: caméra
- → Turkish: kamera
- → Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)
- → Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)
- → Hungarian: kamera
- → Irish: ceamara
- → Hausa: kyamara
- → Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
- → Hokkien: kha-mé-lah
- → Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)
- → Korean: 카메라 (kamera)
- → Luhya: ekamera
- → Manx: camerey
- → Malay: kamera
- → Maori: kāmera
- → Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)
- → Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)
- → Norman: caméra, quéméreu
- → Occitan: camerà
- → Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)
- → Pashto: کامره (kāmrá), کېمره (kemrá)
- → Persian: کامرا (kâmerâ)
- → Romanian: cameră
- → Scottish Gaelic: camara
- → Swahili: kamera
- → Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)
- → Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)
- → Urdu: کیمرہ (kaimra)
- → Welsh: camera
- → Yoruba: kámẹ́rà
Translations edit
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Further reading edit
- camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “camera”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “camera”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “camera”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)
Derived terms edit
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Pronunciation edit
Audio (CAN) (file)
Verb edit
camera
- third-person singular simple future of camer
Interlingua edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
camera (plural cameras)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)
- room; chamber (all senses)
- bedroom
- assembly, parliament
- camera (for taking moving pictures)
- Synonym: telecamera
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Anagrams edit
Ladin edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
camera f (plural cameres)
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkämɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
Noun edit
camera f (genitive camerae); first declension
- A chamber in its various senses, including:
- A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
- A deliberative body.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | camera | camerae |
Genitive | camerae | camerārum |
Dative | camerae | camerīs |
Accusative | cameram | camerās |
Ablative | camerā | camerīs |
Vocative | camera | camerae |
Derived terms edit
- camella
- camera obscura (New Latin)
- concamerō
Descendants edit
Many forms are from the variant camara.
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: kamerë
- → Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
- → Azerbaijani: kamera
- → Belarusian: камера (kamjera)
- → Bole: kemara
- → Bulgarian: камера (kamera)
- → Cornish: kamera
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kamarā (see there for further descendants)
- → Crimean Tatar: kamera
- → Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera)
- → Greek: κάμαρα (kámara) (see there for further descendants)
- → Hungarian: kamara
- → Indonesian: kamera
- → Kazakh: камера (kamera)
- → Kyrgyz: камера (kamera)
- → Latvian: kamera
- → Lithuanian: kamera, kambarys
- → Norwegian: kamera
- → Polish: kamera
- → Romanian: cameră (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: ка́мера (kámera)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kamera / камера
- → Proto-Slavic: *komora
- → Old Spanish: camara (semi-learned) (or from Old Portuguese)
- Spanish: cámara
- → Tajik: камера (kamera)
- → Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära)
- → Turkmen: kamera
- → Ukrainian: камера (kamera)
- → Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra)
- → Uzbek: kamera
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈkämɛräː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
Verb edit
camerā
Romanian edit
Noun edit
camera f
Spanish edit
Noun edit
camera f (plural cameras)
- female equivalent of camero
Adjective edit
camera f
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.
Noun edit
camera m (plural camerâu)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
camera | gamera | nghamera | chamera |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “camera”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies