camelus

See also: Camelus

Latin

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

  1. 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

  • camēlārius
  • camelelasia
  • camelinus
  • camelopardalis
  • camelopodion
  • hippocamelus

Descendants

  • Middle Dutch: kemel, cameel
  • Old Norse: kamell

From Vulgar Latin *camellus

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
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