Wiktionary

cam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cam"

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [kæm]
  • Audio (UK)
    		(file)
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1Edit

 
A cam

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”))

NounEdit

cam (plural cams)

  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. (Britain, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
  4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

 
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NounEdit

cam (plural cams)

  1. (informal) Camera.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
camera — see camera

VerbEdit

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

  1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3Edit

AdverbEdit

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

  1. Alternative form of kam

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

AcholiEdit

NounEdit

cam

  1. food

CalóEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Romani kham.

NounEdit

cam m

  1. (astronomy) sun
    Synonym: ocán

ReferencesEdit

  • “cam” in J. Tineo Rebolledo, A Chipicalli (La Llengua Gitana), Granada: Gómez de la Cruz, 1900, →OCLC, page 26.
  • “cam” in Diccionario gitano/Vocabulario caló-castellano, Wikisource.
  • “cam” in Vocabulario : Caló - Español, Portal del Flamenco y Universidad.

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cam f (plural cams)

  1. cam (device for filming)

NounEdit

cam m (uncountable)

  1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative formsEdit

  • (contre-amiral): CAm

AnagramsEdit

IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. The sense ‘bent, gay’ is a semantic loan from English bent.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

  1. crooked
  2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)
    Synonym: lúbtha

DeclensionEdit

Declension of cam
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative cam cham cama;
chama²
Vocative chaim cama
Genitive caime cama cam
Dative cam;
cham¹ 		cham;
chaim (archaic) 		cama;
chama²
Comparative níos caime
Superlative is caime

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Persian جام‎ (jâm).

NounEdit

cam f

  1. glass

ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

AdjectiveEdit

cam (plural cammey)

  1. crooked
  2. deformed
  3. deceitful
  4. (of wood) knotty

VerbEdit

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

  1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

MutationEdit

Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old IrishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cam

  1. Alternative spelling of camm

DeclensionEdit

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cam cam cam
Vocative caim*
cam**
Accusative cam caim
Genitive caim caime caim
Dative cam caim cam
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative caim cama
Vocative camu
cama†
Accusative camu
cama†
Genitive cam
Dative camaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

MutationEdit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cam cham cam
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

AdverbEdit

cam

  1. approximately, a little
  2. rather
    Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.
    This lake is rather dirty.

Related termsEdit

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

cam

  1. crooked, askew

DeclensionEdit

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative cam cham cama
Vocative chaim chaim cama
Genitive chaim chaim/caime cam
Dative cham chaim cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

MutationEdit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cam cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Persian جام‎ (jâm).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

  1. glass

VietnameseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

  1. orange

See alsoEdit

Derived terms

AdjectiveEdit

cam

  1. made of oranges
  2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

See alsoEdit

Colors in Vietnamese · màu sắc (layout · text)
     trắng      xám      đen
             đỏ; thắm, thẫm              cam; nâu              vàng; kem
             vàng chanh              xanh, xanh lá cây, xanh lục, lục              xanh bạc hà; xanh lục đậm
             xanh lơ, hồ thủy; xanh mòng két              xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh              xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam
             tím; chàm              tía              hồng

WelshEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

NounEdit

cam m (plural camau)

  1. step, pace, footstep
  2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
  3. footprint
  4. step (of a process), stage, phase
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Celtic *kambos, from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kambo- (“crooked”). Compare Old Irish camm. [1]

AdjectiveEdit

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

  1. bent, crooked, distorted
  2. wrong, false, incorrect
  3. wrong, unjust
Derived termsEdit
  • ar gam (“unjustly, wrongly”)
  • camu (“to bend, to distort”)

NounEdit

cam m (plural camau)

  1. wrong, misdeed

Etymology 3Edit

Borrowed from English cam.

NounEdit

cam m (plural camau)

  1. cam

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
cam gam ngham cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

ZhuangEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), Lü ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (tham), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thuem), Saek ถ่าม.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

cam (old orthography cam)

  1. to ask (to request an answer)
  2. to inquire; to ask
  3. to ask for instructions
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