ceamara

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈcamˠəɾˠə]

Noun

ceamara m (genitive singular ceamara, nominative plural ceamaraí)

  1. (photography) camera

Declension
Declension of ceamara

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ceamara ceamaraí
Vocative a cheamara a cheamaraí
Genitive ceamara ceamaraí
Dative ceamara ceamaraí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ceamara na ceamaraí
Genitive an cheamara na gceamaraí
Dative leis an gceamara

don cheamara

 leis na ceamaraí

Synonyms
  • grianghrafadán

Derived terms
  • comhla (ceamara) (“shutter of camera”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
ceamara cheamara gceamara
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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