cama

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

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

cama (plural camas)

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

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, aacm, maca

From Late Latin cama.

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

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

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

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

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cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamɐ]

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamˠə/

cama

1. nominative, vocative, dative, and strong genitive plural of cam

Prossibly from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call χαμαὶ to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) 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.

First declension.

• 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

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

From Late Latin cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

cama f

1. bed

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama.

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐ.mɐ/
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma
• Rhymes: -ama

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

• leito
• ninho

• saco-cama

• quarto

From Late Latin cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

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cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

• lecho

• antecama
• camilla (diminutive)
• camita (diminutive)