camarilla
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.
Pronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun
editcamarilla (plural camarillas)
- A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
- 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:
- The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
- 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 369:
- The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcamarilla f (plural camarillas)
Further reading
edit- “camarilla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Noun
editcamarilla f (plural camarille)
Further reading
edit- camarilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
editEtymology
editFrom cámara (“chamber”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
edit
- Syllabification: ca‧ma‧ri‧lla
Noun
editcamarilla f (plural camarillas)
- a secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
- "El objetivo implícito de esta línea de pensamiento es un mundo de pesadilla en el que el líder, o alguna camarilla gobernante, controla no sólo el futuro sino también el pasado." — George Orwell, «Mirando hacia atrás a la guerra civil española.» (otoño de 1942)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “camarilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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