camion
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camion (plural camions)
- A truck or wagon, especially one used to transport ordnance.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 12:
- There were small gray motor cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back seat. They splashed more mud than the camions even […]
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camion m (plural camions, diminutive camionnetje n)
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Etymology edit
Unknown origin, however, most likely early 19th century. Possibly from chemin (“way, route”), see Spanish camino, or from Latin chamūlcus (“cart”), from Ancient Greek χᾰμουλκός (khamoulkós, “crane, windlass, or possibly other machine”), from χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”) + ἑλκέω (helkéō, “I drag”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ka.mjɔ̃/
audio (file) - (Marseille) IPA(key): /ka.mi.jɔ̃/
- (Toulouse) IPA(key): /ka.mi.ɔŋ/
- Rhymes: -jɔ̃
Noun edit
camion m (plural camions)
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- → Bulgarian: камион (kamion)
- → Dutch: camion
- → English: camion
- → Galician: camión
- → Hungarian: kamion
- → Italian: camion
- → Luxembourgish: Camion
- → Macedonian: камион (kamion)
- → Moore: kamiyõ
- → Portuguese: camião
- → Brazilian Portuguese: caminhão
- → Hunsrik: Kamiong
- → Romanian: camion
- → Serbo-Croatian: kamìōn/камѝо̄н
- → Sicilian: camiu, camiuni
- → Slovene: kamion
- → Spanish: camión
- → Switzerland German: Camion
- → Turkish: kamyon
- → Vietnamese: cam nhông
Further reading edit
- “camion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Unadapted borrowing from French camion.
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camion m (invariable)
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- camion in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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camion n (plural camioane)
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Declension of camion
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) camion | camionul | (niște) camioane | camioanele |
genitive/dative | (unui) camion | camionului | (unor) camioane | camioanelor |
vocative | camionule | camioanelor |