camera

See also: Camera, caméra, càmera, câmera, and cameră

English

A camera.

Etymology

Learned borrowing 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”), of Old Iranian origin. Doublet of chamber.

(device): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæməɹə/, /ˈkæmɹə/
Audio (US) (file)
Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra, cam‧era

Noun

camera (plural cameras or (rare) cameræ or (rare) camerae)

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford

A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
- 2013 July-August, Fenella Saunders, “Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture”, in American Scientist:
  The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail. It’s therefore not surprising that most cameras mimic this arrangement.
(computer graphics, video games) The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- 2003, Tom Meigs, Ultimate game design: building game worlds:
  If you're building a third-person game with enclosed or tight spaces, try to figure out up front what camera problems you will likely encounter. Use this identification process to influence the early building process.
- 2006, Patrick O'Luanaigh, Game Design Complete
  I'm talking about the way the camera flies up above the skater when you leap into the air. No one had done it before.
A vaulted room.
The judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

Derived terms

body camera
box camera
camcorder
camera angle
camera clara
camera club
camera flash
camera fright
camera left
camera lucida
cameraman
camera move
camera obscura
camera phone
camera ready
camera rehearsal
camera right
camera roll
camera shot
camera-shy
camera trap
camera-worker
camera worker
candid camera
cine camera/ ciné camera
compact camera
digital camera
digital still camera
document camera
erial camera
fan camera
game camera
gamma camera
in camera
instant camera
IP camera
Land camera
lightfield camera
lights, camera, action
magazine camera
movie camera
off camera
off-camera
on camera
on-camera
piece to camera
pin camera
pinhole camera
red light camera
red-light camera
reflex camera
Schmidt camera
security camera
speed camera
stereo camera
streak camera
stump camera
surveillance camera
the camera never lies
thermal camera
trail camera
tri-camera photography
video camera
view camera

Related terms

bicameral
camerated

Descendants

Tok Pisin: kamera
→ Arabic: كاميرا‎ (kāmērā)
→ Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)
→ Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra)
→ Catalan: càmera
→ French: caméra
- → Turkish: kamera
→ Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)
→ Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā)
→ Hungarian: kamera
→ Irish: ceamara
→ Hausa: kyamara
→ Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
→ Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)
→ Korean: 카메라 (kamera)
→ Luhya: ekamera
→ Manx: camerey
→ Malay: kamera
→ Maori: kāmera
→ Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)
→ Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)
→ Norman: caméra, quéméreu
→ Occitan: camerà
→ Punjabi: ਕਮਰਾ (kamrā)
→ Pashto: کامره‎ (kāmrá), کېمره‎ (kemrá)
→ Persian: کامرا‎ (kâmerâ)
→ Romanian: cameră
→ Scottish Gaelic: camara
→ Swahili: kamera
→ Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)
→ Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)
→ Urdu: کیمرہ‎ (kaimra)
→ Welsh: camera
→ Yoruba: kámẹ́rà

Translations

still camera

Abkhaz: апатреҭҭыхга (apʼatʼrettəxga)
Afrikaans: kamera (af)
Albanian: aparat fotografik, kamerë (sq) f
Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
Arabic: كَامِيرَا‎ (ar) f (kāmērā), آلَة تَصْوِير‎ f (ʾālat taṣwīr), مُصَوِّرَة‎ f (muṣawwira) (dated)
Hijazi Arabic: كَمِرة‎ f (kamira), كَامِيرَا‎ f (kamira) (different spelling)
Armenian: ֆոտոխցիկ (hy) (fotoxcʿik)
Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ‎ f (mṣawrānītā), ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ‎ f (kāmīrā), ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ‎ m (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā)
Asturian: cámara f
Azerbaijani: fotoaparat
Belarusian: фатаапара́т m (fataaparát), ка́мера f (kámjera), фатака́мера f (fatakámjera)
Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kẏamera)
Bole: kemara
Bulgarian: фотоапара́т (bg) m (fotoaparát), фотока́мера f (fotokámera)
Burmese: ကင်မရာ (my) (kangma.ra)
Catalan: càmera (ca) f
Cherokee: ᏗᏓtᎵᎶᏍᏙᏗ (didatlilosdodi)
Chickasaw: ishholbachi'
Chinese:
Cantonese: 相機, 相机 (soeng^3-2 gei¹), 影相機, 影相机 (jing² soeng^3-2 gei¹)
Dungan: җощёнҗи (žoxi͡onži)
Mandarin: 照相機／照相机 (zh) (zhàoxiàngjī), 相機／相机 (zh) (xiàngjī)
Min Nan: 翕像機, 翕像机 (hip-siōng-ki)
Cornish: kamera m
Czech: fotoaparát (cs) m, foťák (cs) m
Danish: kamera (da) n
Dutch: fototoestel (nl) n, fotoapparaat (nl) n, camera (nl) m
Esperanto: fotilo, fotografilo
Estonian: fotoaparaat, fotokas (et)
Finnish: kamera (fi), valokuvakamera
French: appareil photo (fr) m
Galician: cámara (gl) f
Georgian: ფოტოაპარატი (poṭoaṗaraṭi)
German: Fotoapparat (de) m, Kamera (de) f
Greek: φωτογραφική μηχανή (el) f (fotografikí michaní)
Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā)
Haitian Creole: kodak
Hausa: kyamara (ha)
Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה‎ (he) f (matslemá)
Hindi: कैमरा m (kaimrā)
Hungarian: kamera (hu), fényképezőgép (hu)
Icelandic: myndavél (is) f
Ido: fotografilo (io)
Indonesian: kamera (id), tustel (id)
Irish: ceamara (ga) m, grianghrafadán m
Italian: fotocamera (it) f, macchina fotografica (it) f
Japanese: カメラ (ja) (kamera), 写真機 (ja) (しゃしんき, shashinki)
Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā)
Kazakh: фотоаппарат (kk) (fotoapparat), камера (kamera)
Khmer: គ្រឿងថត (krɨəng thɑɑt), ម៉ាស៊ីនថតរូប (maasɨn thɑɑt ruup)
Korean: 카메라 (ko) (kamera), 사진기(寫眞機) (ko) (sajin'gi)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: kamera (ku)
Kutenai: k̓ituqǂiǂqamunamnam
Kyrgyz: фотоаппарат (ky) (fotoapparat), камера (ky) (kamera)
Ladin: pultradoia f
Lao: ກ້ອງຖ່າຍຮູບ (lo) (kǭng thāi hūp), ກ້ອງຊັກຮູບ (kǭng sak hūp)
Latvian: fotoaparāts m
Lithuanian: fotoaparatas m
Luhya: ekamera
Macedonian: фотоапара́т m (fotoaparát), камера f (kamera)
Malay: kamera
Malayalam: ഛായാഗ്രാഹി (ml) (chāyāgrāhi)
Manx: camerey m, shamraig f
Maori: kāmera, pūwhakaahua
Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зургийн аппарат (mn) (zurgiin apparat), фото аппарат (foto apparat), камер (mn) (kamer)
Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā)
Norman: quéméreu m, caméra m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kamera (no) n, fotoapparat n
Nynorsk: kamera n, fotoapparat n
Ojibwe: mazinaakizigan
Pashto: کامره‎ (ps) f (kāmrá), کېمره‎ f (kemrá), کمره‎ f (kemrá)
Persian: دوربین‎ (fa) (durbin), کامرا‎ (kâmerâ), کمره‎ (fa) (kamra) (Dari)
Polish: aparat fotograficzny (pl) m
Portuguese: câmara fotográfica f (Portugal), câmera fotográfica f (Brazil), máquina fotográfica (pt) f
Punjabi: ਕੈਮਰਾ (kaimrā)
Romanian: aparat foto, aparat fotografic (ro) n, cameră foto n
Russian: фотоаппара́т (ru) m (fotoapparát), ка́мера (ru) f (kámera), фотока́мера (ru) f (fotokámera)
Scottish Gaelic: camara m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: фотоапа̀ра̄т m, ка̀мера f
Roman: fotoapàrāt (sh) m, kàmera (sh) f
Sinhalese: කැමරාව (kæmarāwa)
Slovak: fotoaparát m
Slovene: fotoaparat m
Spanish: cámara (es) f
Swahili: kamera (sw)
Swedish: kamera (sv) c
Tagalog: kamera (tl), kodak
Tajik: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat), суратгирак (suratgirak), камера (kamera), аксбардорак (aksbardorak), дурбини аккосӣ (durbini akkosī)
Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā)
Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā)
Thai: กล้องถ่ายรูป (th) (glɔ̂ng-tàai-rûup), กล้องถ่ายภาพ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-pâap), กล้อง (th) (glɔ̂ng)
Tibetan: པར་ཆས (par chas), དཔར་ཆས (dpar chas)
Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära)
Turkish: fotoğraf makinesi (tr)
Turkmen: fotoapparat, kamera
Ukrainian: фотоапара́т m (fotoaparát), ка́мера (uk) f (kámera), фотока́мера f (fotokámera)
Urdu: کیمرہ‎ m (kaimrā)
Uyghur: فوتو ئاپپارات‎ (foto apparat), كامېرا‎ (kamëra)
Uzbek: fotoapparat (uz), kamera (uz)
Vietnamese: máy hình, máy chụp hình, máy chụp ảnh, máy ảnh (vi), ca-mê-ra
Welsh: camera (cy) m
Yami: sisiva
Yiddish: אַפּאַראַט‎ m (aparat), פֿאָטאָגראַפֿישער אַפּאַראַט‎ m (fotografisher aparat), פֿאָטאָאַפּאַראַט‎ m (fotoaparat), קאַמערע‎ f (kamere)

movie camera

Afrikaans: kamera (af)
Albanian: kamerë (sq) f
Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
Arabic: كَامِيرَا‎ (ar) f (kāmērā), كَامِيرَا فِيدِيُو‎ f (kāmērā fīdiyū)
South Levantine Arabic: آلة تصوير‎ (ʔālet taṣwīr)
Armenian: տեսախցիկ (hy) (tesaxcʿik)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬ ܙܘܼܠܚܸܙܘܵܐ‎ f (mṣawrānit zulḥizwā), ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ‎ f (kāmīrā), ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ‎ m (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā)
Asturian: cámara f
Azerbaijani: kamera
Belarusian: відэака́мера f (videakámjera), ка́мера f (kámjera)
Bulgarian: ка́мера f (kámera)
Catalan: càmera de vídeo (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 攝影機／摄影机 (zh) (shèyǐngjī), (camcorder) 攝像機／摄像机 (zh) (shèxiàngjī)
Czech: kamera (cs) f
Danish: kamera (da) n
Dutch: camera (nl) m
Esperanto: kamerao
Estonian: kaamera (et), fotokas (et)
Finnish: kamera (fi), elokuvakamera (fi), videokamera (fi)
French: caméra (fr) f
Galician: videocámara f, cámara (gl) f
Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera)
German: Videokamera (de) f, Kamera (de) f
Greek: βιντεοκάμερα (el) f (vinteokámera)
Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה‎ (he) f (matslemá), מצלמת וידאו‎ (he) f (matslemat video)
Icelandic: myndavél (is) f, upptökuvél f
Ido: filmregistrilo
Indonesian: kamera video
Irish: ceamara (ga) m, ceamara scannán m, físcheamara m
Italian: videocamera (it) f, telecamera (it) f
Japanese: ビデオカメラ (bideokamera), カメラ (ja) (kamera)
Kazakh: камера (kamera)
Khmer: កាមេរ៉ា (kaameiraa), ម៉ាស៊ីនថតកុន (maasɨn thɑɑt kon)
Korean: 비디오 카메라 (bidio kamera), 카메라 (ko) (kamera)
Kyrgyz: камера (ky) (kamera)
Latvian: kamera f, kinokamera f
Lithuanian: kamera f
Macedonian: камера f (kamera)
Maori: kāmera, pū whakaahua
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: камер (mn) (kamer)
Norman: quéméreu m (Jersey), caméra m (Jersey)
Polish: kamera (pl) f, kamera wideo f
Portuguese: videocâmara f (Portugal), videocâmera f (Brazil)
Russian: видеока́мера (ru) f (videokámera), ка́мера (ru) f (kámera)
Scottish Gaelic: camara m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̀мера f
Roman: kàmera (sh) f
Slovak: kamera f
Slovene: kamera f
Spanish: videocámara f
Swahili: kamera (sw)
Swedish: videokamera (sv), filmkamera (sv)
Tajik: камера (kamera)
Thai: กล้องถ่ายวิดีโอ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-wí-dii-oo)
Turkish: kamera (tr)
Turkmen: kamera
Ukrainian: відеока́мера f (videokámera), ка́мера (uk) f (kámera)
Uyghur: كامېرا‎ (kamëra)
Uzbek: kamera (uz)
Vietnamese: máy quay phim, máy quay, máy ghi hình, ca-mê-ra
Yiddish: קאַמערע‎ f (kamere)

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Translations to be checked

Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} camera
Latin: ^{(please verify)} camera photographica f, ^{(please verify)} machina photographica

Anagrams

Macrae

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkaː.mə.raː/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: ca‧me‧ra

Noun

camera f (plural camera's, diminutive cameraatje n)

camera

Derived terms

cameralens
cameraman
cameraploeg
cameraval
cameravrouw
digitale camera
fotocamera
spiegelreflexcamera
videocamera

Related terms

camcorder
kamer
webcam

Descendants

Afrikaans: kamera
→ Indonesian: kamera

French

Pronunciation

Audio (CAN) (file)

Verb

camera

third-person singular simple future of camer

Interlingua

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/

Noun

camera (plural cameras)

room, chamber

Italian

Etymology

From Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára). Doublet of zambra.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -amera
Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra

Noun

camera f (plural camere, diminutive camerétta or camerìna or camerìno m or (literary) camerèlla, augmentative cameróna or cameróne m, pejorative cameràccia, derogatory camerùccia)

room; chamber (all senses)
bedroom
assembly, parliament
camera (for taking moving pictures)
Synonym: telecamera

Derived terms

camera da letto
camera d'aria
camera oscura
camerare
cameriere
fotocamera
musica da camera
telecamera
unicamerale
unicamerismo
videocamera

Related terms

camerlengo

Descendants

→ Arabic: قمرة‎ (qamara, qamra)
→ Ottoman Turkish: قامره‎, قماره‎
- Turkish: kamara
- → Armenian: խամառա (xamaṙa)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kamara / камара

Anagrams

arcame, macera

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin camera.

Noun

camera f (plural cameres)

chamber, room

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Alternative forms

camara (classical)
cambra (medieval)

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkämɛrä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]

Noun

camera f (genitive camerae); first declension

A chamber in its various senses, including:
1. A room, especially a vaulted room, a vault.
2. A deliberative body.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	camera	camerae
Genitive	camerae	camerārum
Dative	camerae	camerīs
Accusative	cameram	camerās
Ablative	camerā	camerīs
Vocative	camera	camerae

Derived terms

camella
camera obscura (New Latin)
- → Dutch: camera
  - Afrikaans: kamera
  - → Indonesian: kamera
- → English: camera (see there for further descendants)
- → German: Kamera
  - → Czech: kamera
  - → Estonian: kaamera
  - →? Finnish: kamera
- → Swedish: kamera
concamerō

Descendants

Many forms are from the variant camara.

Padanian:
- Friulian: cjamare
- Ladin: camera
- Romansch: chombra, chambra, combra, tgombra
- Venetian: canbra, cànbera, càmera, càmara
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: camera (see there for further descendants)
- Gallurese: cambara
- Sassarese: camara
- Sicilian: càmmara, càmmira
  - → Maltese: kamra
Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: chambre (see there for further descendants)
Occitano-Romance:
Old Occitan: cambra, chambra
- Occitan: cambra, chambra
West Iberian:
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: cámara
- Old Portuguese: camara
  - Galician: cámara
  - Portuguese: câmara, cambra (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: cambra
  - Spanish: cambra (obsolete)

Borrowings

→ Bulgarian: камара (kamara)
→ Old Dutch: *kamara
- Middle Dutch: cāmere (see there for further descendants)
→ Old High German: chamara
- Middle High German: kamer
  - Bavarian: Kauma
    Cimbrian: khåmmar, khamara
    Mòcheno: kòmmer
  - German: Kammer
→ Greek: κάμαρα (kámara)
- → Aromanian: cãmarã
- → Romanian: cămară
→ Hungarian: kamara
→ Old Norse: kamarr (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Saxon:
- German Low German: Kamer, Kammer
→ Romanian: cameră
→ Proto-Slavic: *komora
- East Slavic
  - Russian: камора (kamora)
  - Ukrainian: комора (komora)
- South Slavic
  - Macedonian: комора (komora)
  - Serbo-Croatian: komora / комора
- West Slavic
  - Czech: komora
  - Polish: komora
  - Sorbian
    - Lower Sorbian: komora
    - Upper Sorbian: komora
- → Romanian: comoară
→ Old Spanish: camara (semi-learned) (or from Old Portuguese)
- Spanish: cámara

Unsorted borrowings

→ Albanian: kamerë
→ Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera)
→ Azerbaijani: kamera
→ Belarusian: камера (kamjera)
→ Bole: kemara
→ Bulgarian: камера (kamera)
→ Cornish: kamera
→ Crimean Tatar: kamera
→ Danish: kamera
→ Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera)
→ Indonesian: kamera
→ Kazakh: камера (kamera)
→ Kyrgyz: камера (kamera)
→ Latvian: kamera
→ Lithuanian: kamera, kambarys
→ Norwegian: kamera
→ Polish: kamera
→ Russian: ка́мера (kámera)
- → Mongolian: камер (kamer)
→ Serbo-Croatian: kamera / камера
→ Tajik: камера (kamera)
→ Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära)
→ Turkmen: kamera
→ Ukrainian: камера (kamera)
→ Uyghur: كامېرا‎ (kamëra)
→ Uzbek: kamera
→ West Frisian: keamer

References

“camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“camera”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
camera 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)
camera in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
chamber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.raː/, [ˈkämɛräː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra/, [ˈkäːmerä]

Verb

camerā

second-person singular present active imperative of camerō

Romanian

Noun

camera f

definite nominative/accusative singular of cameră

Spanish

Noun

camera f (plural cameras)

female equivalent of camero

Adjective

camera f

feminine singular of camero

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára), of Old Iranian origin.

Noun

camera m (plural camerâu)

camera

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
camera	gamera	nghamera	chamera
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

camera

English

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Dutch

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Noun

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French

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Verb

Interlingua

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Noun

Italian

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Noun

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Ladin

Etymology

Noun

Latin

Etymology 1

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Noun

Declension

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References

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Verb

Romanian

Noun

Spanish

Noun

Adjective

Welsh

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