camariña

Galician

Camariñas
Camariña ("chamber") of a palloza house, O Piornedo, Galicia

Etymology

From cámara (chamber) + -iña (little), literally little chamber; the plant, perhaps else from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *kat-marina (maritime) (vel sim).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kamaˈɾiɲa̝/

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

  1. little chamber or bedroom

Noun

camariña f (plural camariñas)

  1. Corema album (a heath endemic of the Atlantic regions of the Iberian peninsula and southern France)
    Synonym: camariñeira

Derived terms

  • Camariña
  • Camariñas
  • Pobra do Caramiñal

Descendants

  • Spanish: camariña

See also

References

  1. Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “cámara”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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