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camera

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

English

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A camera.

Etymology

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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, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). 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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Noun

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

 
Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
  1. (photography) 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. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

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Dutch

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Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

  1. camera

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French

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camera

  1. third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

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camera (plural cameras)

  1. room, chamber

Italian

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Etymology

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

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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)
    Synonyms: stanza, sala
  2. bedroom
  3. assembly, parliament
  4. camera (for taking moving pictures)
    Synonym: telecamera

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Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin camera.

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camera f (plural cameres)

  1. chamber, room

Latin

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Etymology 1

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

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Noun

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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.
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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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Many forms are from the variant camara.

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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camerā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

Romanian

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camera f

  1. definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

Spanish

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camera f (plural cameras)

  1. female equivalent of camero

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camera f

  1. feminine singular of camero

Welsh

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Etymology

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

Noun

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camera m (plural camerâu)

  1. camera

Mutation

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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 reading

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  • 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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