camarilla
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun edit
camarilla (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 edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
camarilla f (plural camarillas)
Further reading edit
- “camarilla”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.
Noun edit
camarilla f (plural camarille)
Further reading edit
- camarilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From cámara (“chamber”) + -illa (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- Syllabification: ca‧ma‧ri‧lla
Noun edit
camarilla 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “camarilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014