camba

See also: Camba

Galician

A Galician traditional ox cart

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (curved). Cognate with Walloon tchame (wheelrim), Old Irish camm (crooked, bent), Welsh cam (crooked).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑmbɐ]

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

  1. each one of the bent pieces of the felly (in a traditional wooden wheel)
  2. doorjamb of the oven
  3. handmill
  4. curved beam of the plough
Derived terms
  • Camba
  • cambadela (somersault)
  • Cambados
  • cambar (to bend)
  • cambela (a type of plough)
  • Cambela
  • cambelo (a bent stick)
  • cambeta (a special clamp)
  • cambiar (to change)
  • cambo
  • cambón (a number of pronged tools)
  • cambota (hood of a fireplace)

References

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

Verb

camba

  1. inflection of cambar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp- (to bend; crooked).

Pronunciation

Noun

camba f (genitive cambae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) leg

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative camba cambae
Genitive cambae cambārum
Dative cambae cambīs
Accusative cambam cambās
Ablative cambā cambīs
Vocative camba cambae

Descendants

  • Catalan: cama
  • Franco-Provençal: chamba
  • Gascon: cama
  • Occitan: camba, chamba
  • Old Spanish: cama

References

  • gamba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • camba 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)
  • gamba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 703/1.

Occitan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkambo/
  • (file)

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

  1. leg
  2. stem (plants)

Dialectal variants

Derived terms

Portuguese

Verb

camba

  1. inflection of cambar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Etymology

From a vesre form of bacán.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkamba/ [ˈkãm.ba]
  • Rhymes: -amba
  • Syllabification: cam‧ba

Noun

camba m (plural cambas)

  1. (vesre) pimp

Further reading

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