cam

• IPA^(key): [kæm]
• Rhymes: -æm

A cam

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”))

cam (plural cams)

1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
3. (Britain, dialectal) A ridge or mound of earth.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.

• cam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• climbing cam

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

cam (plural cams)

1. (informal) Camera.

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

1. To go on webcam with someone.

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

1. Alternative form of kam

• cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• ACM, AMC, C.M.A., CMA, MAC, MCA, Mac, Mac., mac, mca

cam

1. food

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

• IPA^(key): /kam/

cam f (plural cams)

1. cam (device for filming)

cam m (uncountable)

1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

• (contre-amiral): CAm

• AMC

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos. The sense ‘bent, gay’ is a semantic loan from English bent.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kaumˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kɑːmˠ/
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kamˠ/

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

1. crooked
2. (offensive) bent (homosexual)

   Synonym: lúbtha

Related to Persian ‌جام‎ (jam).

cam f

1. glass

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

cam (plural cammey)

1. crooked
2. deformed
3. deceitful
4. (of wood) knotty

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

cam

1. Alternative spelling of camm

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

cam

1. approximately, a little
2. rather

   Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.

   This lake is rather dirty.

• ca

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

• IPA^(key): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

cam

1. crooked, askew

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Comparative/superlative: caime

Borrowed from Persian جام‎ (jâm).

• IPA^(key): /dʒam/

cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

1. glass

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [kaːm˧˧]

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

1. orange

• cam sành

cam

1. made of oranges
2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

cam m (plural camau)

1. step, pace, footstep
2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
3. footprint
4. step (of a process), stage, phase

• cam a cham (“step by step”)
• camu (“to step”)

From Proto-Celtic *kambos. Compare Old Irish camm.

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

1. bent, crooked, distorted
2. wrong, false, incorrect
3. wrong, unjust

• ar gam (“unjustly, wrongly”)
• camu (“to bend, to distort”)

cam m (plural camau)

1. wrong, misdeed

Borrowed from English cam.

cam m (plural camau)

1. cam

From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), Lü ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (tham), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thuem), Saek ถ่าม.

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɕaːm˨˦/
• Tone numbers: cam¹
• Hyphenation: cam

cam (old orthography cam)

1. to ask (to request an answer)
2. to inquire; to ask
3. to ask for instructions