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cama

See also: Cama, čama, and сама

English

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Etymology

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Blend of camel +‎ llama.

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cama (plural camas)

  1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Late Latin cama.

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cama f (plural cames)

  1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

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cama f (plural cames)

  1. leg
    Synonym: gamba
  2. stem, stalk, stipe (of a plant)
  3. gaskin (of a horse)

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Chavacano

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Etymology

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Inherited from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

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cama

  1. bed

French

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Verb

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cama

  1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

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A cama in an abandoned house

Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidore of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

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cama f (plural camas)

  1. bed
    • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
      Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.
      Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them
    Synonym: leito
  2. platform of a cart
  3. garden plot

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Irish

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cama

  1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cama
radical lenition eclipsis
cama chama gcama

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Latin

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Etymology

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Isidore, quoted below, folk-etymologises a dubious Greek origin. Still, no solid alternative is available. The distribution of its descendants may suggest it was borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

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cama f (genitive camae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. bed
    • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:
      Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.
      Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt.
      They are called bed-shirts because in these we sleep on beds, that is, on our beds.
      A bed is low and near the ground, for the Greeks say χαμαὶ for "low".

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cama camae
genitive camae camārum
dative camae camīs
accusative camam camās
ablative camā camīs
vocative cama camae

Descendants

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  • Asturian: cama
  • Mirandese: cama
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cama
    • Galician: cama
    • Portuguese: cama (see there for further descendants)
  • Spanish: cama (see there for further descendants)

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  • “cama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

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Noun

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cama f (plural camas)

  1. bed

Descendants

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  • Galician: cama
  • Portuguese: cama (see there for further descendants)

Old Irish

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Adjective

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cama

  1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

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Mutation of cama
radical lenition nasalization
cama chama cama
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin camba. Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”). Cf. Catalan cama (“leg”).

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Noun

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cama f (plural camas)

  1. leg
  2. thigh

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  • Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

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cama

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

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Noun

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cama f (plural camas)

  2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)
    Synonyms: leito, ninho

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Spanish

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cama

Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

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Noun

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cama f (plural camas)

  1. bed
    Synonyms: catre (Philippines), lecho (less common)

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