cama

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

From Late Latin cama.

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈka.mə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

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cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

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cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidore of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɑmɐ]

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamˠə/

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Possibly from Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call χαμαὶ to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

• (Proto-Ibero-Romance) IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

cama f (genitive camae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt.

First-declension noun.

• Asturian: cama
• Old Portuguese: cama
  • Galician: cama
  • Portuguese: cama
    • → Chichewa: kama
    • → Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • → Bikol Central: kama
  • → Maranao: kama
  • → Tagalog: kama

• “cama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

cama f

1. bed

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama
  • → Chichewa: kama
  • → Kabuverdianu: kama

From Latin camba, itself from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: ca‧ma

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

• acamar
• caminha (diminutive)
• camona (augmentative)
• de cama
• saco-cama

• → Chichewa: kama
• → Kabuverdianu: kama

• quarto

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ca‧ma

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

• → Bikol Central: kama
• → Maranao: kama
• → Tagalog: kama

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