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cama acma cmaa mcaa amca maca caam acam caam acam aacm aacm cmaa mcaa cama acma maca amca amac maac aamc aamc maac amac

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Definitions and meaning of cama

cama

Etymology

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

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

See also

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

2. stem, stalk, stipe (of a plant)
3. gaskin (of a horse)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/, [ˈka.ma]

Noun

cama

1. bed

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑmɐ]

Noun

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:

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamˠə/

Adjective

cama

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

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

Noun

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:

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

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

Further reading

• “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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

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

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg
2. thigh

References

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

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• acamar
• caminha (diminutive)
• camona (augmentative)
• de cama
• saco-cama

Descendants

• Kabuverdianu: kama
• → Chichewa: kama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ca‧ma

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonyms: catre (Philippines), lecho (less common)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Chavacano: cama
• → Bikol Central: kama
• → Maranao: kama
• → Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• “cama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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