camba

camba

See also: Camba

Galician

A Galician traditional ox cart

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kambos (“curved”). Cognate with Walloon cham (“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

• “camba” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “camba” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “camba” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

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Latin

Alternative forms

• gamba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.ba/, [ˈkämbä]

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
• Occitan: camba, cama (gascon), chamba (northern)
• Franco-Provençal: 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

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Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkambo/

• (file)

Noun

camba f (plural cambas)

1. leg
2. stem (plants)

Dialectal variants

• cama
• chamba

Derived terms

• cambajon

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Portuguese

Verb

camba

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

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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

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