camelo

camelo

See also: cameló, camelô, and camèło

Galician

camelo.

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese camelo, from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. Cognate with Portuguese camelo and Spanish camello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɑˈmɛlʊ]

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Noun

camelo m (plural camelos)

1. camel
2. (informal) pusher, drug dealer

References

• “camelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “camelo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “camelo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “camelo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

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Latin

Noun

camēlō

1. dative/ablative singular of camēlus

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. Cognate with Old Spanish camello.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈme.lo/

Noun

camelo m

1. camel
   • 13th century, Cancioneiro da Biblioteca Nacional, Alfonso X of Castile, B 476: Non quer'eu donzela fea (facsimile)

     Non quereu donzela fea / Que […] faça come cameles (sic).

     I do not want an ugly maiden who stinks like a camel.

Descendants

• Galician: camelo
• Portuguese: camelo (see there for further descendants)

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Portuguese

camelos

Etymology

From Old Portuguese camelo, from Vulgar Latin *camellus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. Cognate with Galician camelo and Spanish camello.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈme.lu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈme.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaˈme.lo/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐˈme.lu/

• Hyphenation: ca‧me‧lo

Noun

camelo m (plural camelos, feminine camela, feminine plural camelas)

1. camel

Descendants

• Kadiwéu: gameelo

See also

• dromedário

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Spanish

Etymology

From camelar.

Noun

camelo m (plural camelos)

1. bluff, hoax, con
2. baloney (fake news)
3. (colloquial) flattery, gallantry (especially towards women)

   Synonyms: piropo, halago, galantería

Verb

camelo

1. first-person singular present indicative of camelar

Further reading

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