camus

camus

1. Obsolete form of camis.

• CUSMA, MUSCA, Musca, USMCA, musac, sumac

Origin uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ka.my/

camus (feminine singular camuse, masculine plural camus, feminine plural camuses)

1. flat-nosed

• “camus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Likely derived from Ancient Greek, compare Doric Ancient Greek κᾱμός (kāmós), Attic Ancient Greek κημός (kēmós, “muzzle, nose-bag; face-mask; a female ornament”).

cāmus m (genitive cāmī); second declension

1. (doubtful) a punishment device, perhaps a kind of collar for the neck
2. (doubtful) a kind of collar for the neck, a necklace or neckband (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)
3. (Late Latin) collar, muzzle (as for a horse)

(punishment device; necklace):
In Quintus Horatius Flaccus' Satirae or Sermones, liber I, this word is doubtful as either cāmus as a punishment devise or Cadmus as a proper noun. Compare for example:

• Des Q. Horatius Flaccus Sermonen. Herausgegeben und erklärt von Ad. Th. Hermann Fritzsche. Erster Band: Der Sermonen Buch I, Leipzig, 1875, page 154f.:

  „Tune, Syri, Damae, aut Dionysi filius, audes
  Deicere de saxo civīs aut tradere camo?“

• Horace Satires, Epistles and Ars poetica with an English translation by H. Rushton Fairclough, 1942, page 78f.:

  "tune, Syri, Damae aut Dionysi filius, audes
  deicere de saxo civis aut tradere Cadmo?"

  "Do you, the son of a Syrus, a Dama, a Dionysius,^d dare to fling from the rock^e or to hand over to Cadmus citizens of Rome?"

  ^d These are common slave-names.

  ^e i.e. the Tarpeian rock from which criminals were sometimes thrown by order of a tribune. Cadmus was a public executioner.

In Lucius Attius or Accius as cited by Nonius Marcellus cāmus is interpreted as a punishment devise or a necklace. See for example:

• Nonius Marcellus, De compendiosa doctrina, page 200, line 16f. In: Nonii Marcelli de conpendiosa doctrina libros XX onionsianis copiis usus edidit Wallace M. Lindsay. Volumen I. LL. I–III, argumentum, indicem siglorum et praefationem continens, Leipzig, 1903, page 294:

  Collus masculino Accius Epigonis (302):
  . quid cesso ire ád eam? em, praesto ést: camo collúm gravem.

  16 epigono (etiam F³)

• Otto Ribbeck, Scaenicae romanorum poesis fragmenta. Tertiis curis. Volumen I. Tragicorum fragmenta. – Tragicorum romanorum fragmenta. Tertiis curis, Leipzig, 1897, page 202f.:

  <Séd> quid cesso ire ád eam? em praesto est: <ém> camo collúm grauem!

  Non. 200, 15 'collus masculino Accius Epigono . . .'

• Remains of Old Latin Newly Edited and Translated by E. H. Warmington, in three volumes, II, Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Pacuvius and Accuius, 1936, page 426f. (Lucius Accius (or Atticus), Epigoni):

  287
  Nonius, 200, 16: ' Collus' masculino . . .–
    Alcmeo
  . . . Quid cesso ire ad eam? Em praesto est: camo
    collum graven!

  287
  Alcmaeon sees Eriphyle decked with the necklace with which she was bribed:
  Nonius: 'Collus' in the masculine . . .–
    Alcmaeon
      I'll not
  Delay to approach her. See! She is at hand.
  How heavy with the neck-band is her throat!

Second declension.

• Italian: camo

• camus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• camus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 251
• camus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• camus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin