cam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cam"

Contents

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [kæm]
• 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

Terms derived from cam

• cambelt
• camshaft
• camwheel

• overhead cam
• twin-cam

TranslationsEdit

mechanical part

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 凸輪 (zh), 凸轮 (zh) (tūlún)

• Czech: vačka f
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: nok (nl) m, f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: epäkesko (fi), nokka (fi), nostovarsi
• French: came (fr) f
• German: Nocken (de) m

• Italian: camma (it) f
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: camă (ro) f
• Russian: эксце́нтрик (ru) m (ekscéntrik), кулачо́к (ru) m (kulačók)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: kam (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can

See alsoEdit

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further readingEdit

• climbing cam

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”)

NounEdit

cam (plural cams)

1. (informal) Camera.

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from cam

• bodycam
• camboy
• camcorder
• camgirl
• cammer
• camming
• camphone
• camwhore
• camwhoring
• crittercam

• dash cam
• dashcam
• face cam
• facecam
• fishcam
• handicam
• headcam
• hovercam
• minicam
• nanny cam

• netcam
• phonecam
• recam
• shakycam
• spycam
• Steadicam
• trailcam
• videocam
• webcam

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

• cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

AnagramsEdit

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac., mac, mca

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AcholiEdit

NounEdit

cam

1. food

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kam/

NounEdit

cam f (plural cams)

1. cam (device for filming)

AbbreviationEdit

cam m (uncountable)

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

Alternative formsEdit

• (contre-amiral): CAm

AnagramsEdit

• AMC

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kaumˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kɑːmˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kamˠ/

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. crooked

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.

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KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to Persian ‌جام‎ (jam).

NounEdit

cam f

1. glass

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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.

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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.

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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

• ca

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Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

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.

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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Persian جام‎ (jâm).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /dʒam/

NounEdit

cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

1. glass

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VietnameseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]

NounEdit

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

1. orange

Derived termsEdit

• cam sành - a Vietnamese citrus fruit similar to an orange
• cây cam - orange tree

AdjectiveEdit

cam

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

Derived termsEdit

• nước cam - orange juice (literally: "orange water")
• sách màu cam - orange book (literally: "orange-coloured book")

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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

• cam a cham (“step by step”)
• camu (“to step”)

Etymology 2Edit

From Proto-Celtic *kambos. Compare Old Irish camm.

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.

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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

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕaːm˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cam¹
• Hyphenation: cam

VerbEdit

cam (old orthography cam)

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