camaeus

Latin

Alternative forms
  • cadmeus, camahuta, camahutus, caman', camantus, camau, camautus, camehu, cameu, cammaeus, cathmaieu, chamah, kaadmau, kamacu, kamaeta, kamahutum, kamahutus, kathmath'

Etymology

Unknown, first attested 1295. Perhaps borrowed from Classical Persian خماهن (xumāhan, “agate”) or Arabic قَمَائِل (qamāʔil, “buds of a flower”).[1][2][3] Compare French camaïeu.

Noun

camaeus m (genitive camaeī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) cameo (jewellery carved in relief)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative camaeus camaeī
Genitive camaeī camaeōrum
Dative camaeō camaeīs
Accusative camaeum camaeōs
Ablative camaeō camaeīs
Vocative camaee camaeī

Descendants
  • → Catalan: camafeu
  • → Italian: cammeo
  • → Portuguese: camafeu
  • → Spanish: camafeo

References
  • camaeus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camahutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
  • Plantzos, Dimitros (1996) “Hellenistic Cameos: Problems of Classification and Chronology”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, volume 41, number 1, pages 115–116
  1. Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “cameo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. Du. (1958). Germany: Conzett & Huber..
  3. Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 287
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