cam
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”)). Doublet of comb.
Noun edit
cam (plural cams)
- A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
- A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
- (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
- 1861, Dean Ramsay, Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character:
- Cum doun t' cam' soid
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Welsh: cam
Translations edit
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See also edit
- cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Spring-loaded camming device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cam (plural cams)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
Verb edit
cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)
- To go on webcam with someone.
Etymology 3 edit
Adverb edit
cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)
- Alternative form of kam
Further reading edit
- “cam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
See also edit
Anagrams edit
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵómbʰos
Acholi edit
Noun edit
cam
Caló edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Romani kham, from Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá, “hot weather, sunshine”).
Noun edit
cam m (plural cames)
References edit
Chinese edit
Etymology edit
From English cam, clipping of camera.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cam
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) camera, especially for filming, computing or surveillance purposes (Classifier: 部 c; 支 c; 隻/只 c; 個/个 c)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
cam
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to monitor or surveil with a camera
French edit
Etymology edit
From English cam, a shortening of camera.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cam f (plural cams)
- (cinematography) cam (device for filming)
Noun edit
cam m (uncountable)
Alternative forms edit
- CAm (contre-amiral)
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Noun edit
cam m (plural cans, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of can
References edit
- “cam” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay cam. From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cam
- (only with a negative) to be interested; to be taken by
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “cam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish camm. The sense “bent, gay” is a semantic loan from English bent.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)
Declension edit
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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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.
Derived terms edit
- caime f (“crookedness”)
- camchosach (“bandy-legged”, adjective)
- cam-mhuin f (“wryneck”)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Yola: caam
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cam | cham | gcam |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 291, page 104
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Malay edit
Etymology edit
From Sanskrit [Term?]. Compare Urak Lawoi' จับ (cap, “to remember”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cam (Jawi spelling چم)
- to recognize by sight; to identify; to remember what has been seen
- Synonym: kenal pasti
Derived terms edit
Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:
Descendants edit
- Indonesian: cam
Further reading edit
- “cam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Manx edit
Etymology edit
Adjective edit
cam (plural cammey)
Verb edit
cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)
Mutation edit
Manx mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cam | cham | gam |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
cam f
Old Irish edit
Adjective edit
cam
- Alternative spelling of camm
Declension edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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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 |
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Adverb edit
cam
- approximately, a little
- rather
- Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.
- This lake is rather dirty.
Related terms edit
Scots edit
Verb edit
cam
Scottish Gaelic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
cam
Declension edit
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
Mutation edit
Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
cam | cham |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Southwestern Dinka edit
Noun edit
cam
References edit
- Dinka-English Dictionary[1], 2005
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish جام (cam), from Persian جام (jâm).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)
Derived terms edit
Adjective edit
cam
- of glass
Vietnamese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam
- orange, such as or citrus sinensis sinensis or citrus aurantium
- Short for cam sành (“Citrus reticulata × sinensis”).
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Adjective edit
cam
See also edit
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 thuỷ; xanh mòng két | xanh, xanh da trời, thiên thanh | xanh, xanh dương, xanh nước biển, xanh lam, lam |
tím; chàm | tía | hồng |
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
cam
- Short for camera.
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.
Noun edit
cam m (plural camau)
- step, pace, footstep
- footfall (sound made by a footstep)
- footprint
- step (of a process), stage, phase
Derived terms edit
- ar y cam (“at walking pace”)
- cam a cham (“step by step”)
- cam ceiliog (“the lengthening daylight between the winter solstice and Christmas”)
- cam gwag (“misstep, stumbling”)
- camfa (“stile”)
- camu (“to step”)
- cochgam (“robin”)
- y cam cyntaf yw’r cam gorau (“the sooner the better”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Brythonic *kam, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.
Adjective edit
cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)
- bent, crooked, distorted
- wrong, false, incorrect
- Gweithio yn gam ― To do incorrectly
- wrong, unjust
- one-eyed, squint-eyed
Derived terms edit
- ar gam (“in error, astray, falsely”)
- ar y cam (“in the wrong”)
- cam a chwys (“right and wrong”)
- cam neu gymwys (“rightly or wrongly”)
- cam-
- camu (“to bend, to distort, to abuse”)
- camwedd (“injustice”)
- edrych yn gam ar (“to frown upon”)
- yng ngham (“at fault, faulty”)
Noun edit
cam m (plural camau)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
cam m (plural camau)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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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. |
Yola edit
Verb edit
cam
- simple past tense of coome
- 1927, “PAUDEEN FOUGHLAAN'S WEDDEEN”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 133, line 5:
- Yola Vather Deruse hay raree cam thoare,
- Old Father Devereux early came there,
References edit
- Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 133
Zhuang edit
Etymology edit
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 (thaṃ), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thüm), Saek ถ่าม.
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɕaːm˨˦/
- Tone numbers: cam1
- Hyphenation: cam
Verb edit
cam (Sawndip forms 𰇼 or 𭆻 or 𭈧 or 𠮿 or 仨 or 𮞁, 1957–1982 spelling cam)
- to ask (to request an answer)
- to inquire; to ask
- to ask for instructions