ceamara
Irish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), 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”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ceamara m (genitive singular ceamara, nominative plural ceamaraí)
Declension edit
Declension of ceamara
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- físcheamara (“video camera”)
Related terms edit
- comhla (ceamara) (“shutter of camera”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
ceamara | cheamara | gceamara |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceamara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN