camelus
See also: Camelus
Latin
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Camelus bactrianus
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”), from a Semitic language; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל (gamál).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaˈmeː.lus/, [käˈmeːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈme.lus/, [käˈmɛːlus]
Noun
camēlus m (genitive camēlī, feminine camēla); second declension
- A camel
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | camēlus | camēlī |
Genitive | camēlī | camēlōrum |
Dative | camēlō | camēlīs |
Accusative | camēlum | camēlōs |
Ablative | camēlō | camēlīs |
Vocative | camēle | camēlī |
Derived terms
- Struthio camelus
Related terms
- camēlārius
- camelelasia
- camelinus
- camelopardalis
- camelopodion
- hippocamelus
Descendants
- → Middle Dutch: kemel, cameel
- Dutch: kameel, kemel
- Afrikaans: kameel
- English: camel (South Africa)
- Afrikaans: kameel
- Dutch: kameel, kemel
- → Old Norse: kamell
- Danish: kamel
- Faroese: kamelur
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kamel
- Nynorsk: kamel
- Swedish: kamel
From Vulgar Latin *camellus
- Asturian: camellu
- Corsican: camellu
- Italian: cammello
- Ladin: camel
- Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: camello
- Old French: chamel, cameil, camuel
- Middle French: chameau
- French: chameau
- Haitian Creole: chamo
- Volapük: jamod
- Norman: chanmeau
- Walloon: chamo
- French: chameau
- Anglo-Norman: camel
- → Middle English: camel, camell
- English: camel
- → Coeur d'Alene: keemel
- English: camel
- → Old Irish: camall
- Irish: camall
- Scottish Gaelic: càmhal
- → Middle English: camel, camell
- Middle French: chameau
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: camell
- Occitan: camèl
- Old Portuguese: camelo
- Galician: camelo
- Portuguese: camelo (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: camello
- Ladino: gameyo (Latin spelling)
- Spanish: camello
- → Bikol Central: kamelyo
- → Tagalog: kamelyo
- Sardinian: camellu
- Sicilian: jamiḍḍu, gamiḍḍu
- Venetian: camèło
References
- “camelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “camelus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- camelus 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)
- camelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette