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camera

See also: Camera, caméra, càmera, câmera, and cameră

EnglishEdit

 
A camera.

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin. Doublet of chamber.

(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

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NounEdit

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)

 
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
  1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
    • 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
      The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
  2. (computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
    • 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:
      If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
    • 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
      I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.
  3. A vaulted room.
  4. The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

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DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkaː.mə.raː/
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  • Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

NounEdit

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

  1. camera

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camera

  1. third-person singular simple future of camer

InterlinguaEdit

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NounEdit

camera (plural cameras)

  1. room, chamber

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.

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NounEdit

camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)

  1. room; chamber (all senses)
  2. bedroom
  3. assembly, parliament
  4. camera (for taking moving pictures)
    Synonym: telecamera

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EtymologyEdit

From Latin camera.

NounEdit

camera f (plural cameres)

  1. chamber, room

LatinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

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camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

  1. A chamber in its various senses, including:
    1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
    2. A deliberative body.
DeclensionEdit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative camera camerae
Genitive camerae camerārum
Dative camerae camerīs
Accusative cameram camerās
Ablative camerā camerīs
Vocative camera camerae
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DescendantsEdit

Many forms are from the variant camara.

Borrowings

Unsorted borrowings

ReferencesEdit

  • “camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • camera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • chamber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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camerā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

RomanianEdit

NounEdit

camera f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

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NounEdit

camera f (plural cameras)

  1. female equivalent of camero

AdjectiveEdit

camera f

  1. feminine singular of camero

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.

NounEdit

camera m (plural camerâu)

  1. camera

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
camera gamera nghamera chamera
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “camera”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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