camello

• camelo

From Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camelus (influenced by the suffix -ellus, which did not change into the usual -iellus in this case), from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos).

• IPA^(key): [kaˈme.ʎo]

camello m (plural camellos)

1. camel
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 3r. a.

     Tomo eleazar. x. camellos. / de la meioria de ſo ſénor. efue / arrama araim cibdat de na / cor.

     Eliezer took ten of his master's best camels and made for Aram-Naharaim to the city of Nahor.

   • Idem, f. 5v. b.

     E vinien de galaat / có ſos camellos cargados de / mercaduras e ẏuá a egipto

     And they came from Gilead with their camels bearing merchandise, and they were headed for Egypt.

• Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: camello

From Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camelus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. More at camel.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /kaˈmeʎo/
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /kaˈmeɟ͡ʝo/, [kaˈmeʝo]

camello m (plural camellos, feminine camella, feminine plural camellas)

1. camel
2. (informal) pusher (drug dealer)

• (camel): gamello (obsolete)

• dromedario

• acamellado

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