camera
English
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Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era
Noun
[edit]camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)
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- (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.
- (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.
- A vaulted room.
- A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Derived terms
[edit]- aerial camera
- aerocamera
- Anger camera
- Baker-Nunn camera
- body camera
- body-worn camera
- box camera
- camback
- camcorder
- camera angle
- camera clara
- camera club
- camera flash
- camera fright
- camera left
- cameraless
- cameralike
- camera lucida
- cameraman
- camera move
- camera obscura
- cameraperson
- camera phone
- cameraphone
- camera ready
- camera rehearsal
- camera right
- camera roll
- camera shake
- camera shot
- camera-shy
- camera trap
- camerawoman
- camera worker
- camera-worker
- camerist
- camfecting
- candid camera
- CCTV camera
- cine camera
- ciné camera
- cold camera
- compact camera
- dashcam
- digital camera
- digital still camera
- document camera
- fan camera
- game camera
- gamma camera
- gastrocamera
- holocamera
- in camera
- instant camera
- IP camera
- Land camera
- lightfield camera
- lights, camera, action
- magazine camera
- make love to the camera
- microcamera
- minicamera
- mirrorless camera
- movie camera
- multicamera
- nanocamera
- noncamera
- off-camera
- off camera
- on camera
- on-camera
- piece to camera
- pin camera
- pinhole camera
- red light camera
- red-light camera
- reflex camera
- Schmidt camera
- scintillation camera
- security camera
- selfie camera
- speed camera
- stereocamera
- stereo camera
- streak camera
- stump camera
- surveillance camera
- the camera never lies
- thermal camera
- thermocamera
- trail camera
- tricamera
- tri-camera photography
- video camera
- view camera
- wearable camera
- webcamera
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Tok Pisin: kamera
- → Arabic: كاميرا (kāmērā)
- → Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)
- → Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera)
- → Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)
- → Catalan: càmera
- → French: caméra
- → Turkish: kamera
- → Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)
- → Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)
- → Hungarian: kamera
- → Irish: ceamara
- → Hausa: kyamara
- → Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
- → Hokkien: kha-mé-lah
- → Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)
- → Korean: 카메라 (kamera)
- → Luhya: ekamera
- → Manx: camerey
- → Malay: kamera
- → Maori: kāmera
- → Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)
- → Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)
- → Norman: caméra, quéméreu
- → Occitan: camerà
- → Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)
- → Pashto: کامره (kāmrá), کېمره (kemrá)
- → Persian: کامرا (kâmerâ)
- → Romanian: cameră
- → Scottish Gaelic: camara
- → Swahili: kamera
- → Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)
- → Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)
- → Urdu: کیمرہ (kaimra)
- → Welsh: camera
- → Yoruba: kámẹ́rà
Translations
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Further reading
[edit]camera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “camera”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “camera”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “camera”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]camera
- third-person singular simple future of camer
Interlingua
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera (plural cameras)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)
- room; chamber (all senses)
- bedroom
- assembly, parliament
- camera (for taking moving pictures)
- Synonym: telecamera
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
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[edit]Ladin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera f (plural cameres)
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkämɛrä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
Noun
[edit]camera f (genitive camerae); first declension
- A chamber in its various senses, including:
- A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
- A deliberative body.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | camera | camerae |
Genitive | camerae | camerārum |
Dative | camerae | camerīs |
Accusative | cameram | camerās |
Ablative | camerā | camerīs |
Vocative | camera | camerae |
Derived terms
[edit]- camella
- camera obscura (New Latin)
- concamerō
Descendants
[edit]Many forms are from the variant camara.
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: kamerë
- → Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
- → Azerbaijani: kamera
- → Belarusian: камера (kamjera)
- → Bole: kemara
- → Bulgarian: камера (kamera)
- → Cornish: kamera
- → Proto-West Germanic: *kamarā (see there for further descendants)
- → Crimean Tatar: kamera
- → Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera)
- → Greek: κάμαρα (kámara) (see there for further descendants)
- → Hungarian: kamara
- → Indonesian: kamera
- → Kazakh: камера (kamera)
- → Kyrgyz: камера (kamera)
- → Latvian: kamera
- → Lithuanian: kamera, kambarys
- → Norwegian: kamera
- → Polish: kamera
- → Romanian: cameră (see there for further descendants)
- → Russian: ка́мера (kámera)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kamera / камера
- → Proto-Slavic: *komora
- → Old Spanish: camara (semi-learned) (or from Old Portuguese)
- Spanish: cámara
- → Tajik: камера (kamera)
- → Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära)
- → Turkmen: kamera
- → Ukrainian: камера (kamera)
- → Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra)
- → Uzbek: kamera
References
[edit]- “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, →OCLC.
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈkämɛräː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]
Verb
[edit]camerā
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera f
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]camera f (plural cameras)
- female equivalent of camero
Adjective
[edit]camera f
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.
Noun
[edit]camera m (plural camerâu)
Mutation
[edit]Welsh mutation | |||
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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
[edit]- 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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