cámara

cámara f (plural cámares)

1. camera

From Old Galician-Portuguese camara (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin camara, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “a vaulted chamber”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkamɐɾɐ]

cámara f (plural cámaras)

1. chamber
   • c. 1450, A. López Ferreiro, editor, Historia de la Santa A. M. Iglesia de Santiago de Compostela, VII, p. 136:

     ítem mando que dentro enas ditas casas de miña morada seja apartadamente outra Cámara de libraría en que sejan postos todos meus libros en rroda et almarios

     Item, I order that, inside my houses where I reside, they build another chamber for library, and that they place in it all my books around in shelves

   1. namely, the main bedroom of a house
   2. the room used for deliberation by a legislature
   3. an enclosed space
   4. (archaic) toilet, bathroom
   5. (firearms) the area holding the ammunition round
2. camera
3. (nautical) cabin

• camarada
• Camarada
• camariña

• “camara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “camara” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cámara” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cámara” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Inherited from Old Spanish camara, borrowed from Vulgar Latin camara, variant of Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “something with an arched cover, a vaulted chamber”). Doublet of cambra.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamaɾa/ [ˈka.ma.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -amaɾa
• Syllabification: cá‧ma‧ra

cámara f (plural cámaras)

1. room

   Synonym: cuarto

2. camera
3. chamber
4. legislature
5. inner tube

   Synonym: tripa

6. (nautical) cabin

   Synonym: camarote

7. bowel movement

   Synonym: deposición

cámara m or f by sense (plural cámaras)

1. (cinematography) cameraman, camera operator (somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera)

   Synonym: camarógrafo

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

• maraca