camelus
See also: Camelus
Latin
Alternative forms
- camellus (reanalyzed as a diminutive)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”), from a Semitic language; compare Arabic جَمَل (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל (gamál).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kaˈmeː.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kaˈmɛː.lus]
Noun
camēlus m (genitive camēlī, feminine camēla); second declension
- a camel
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | camēlus | camēlī |
| genitive | camēlī | camēlōrum |
| dative | camēlō | camēlīs |
| accusative | camēlum | camēlōs |
| ablative | camēlō | camēlīs |
| vocative | camēle | camēlī |
Derived terms
- Strūthiō camēlus
Related terms
- camēlārius
- camelelasia
- camēlīnus
- camēlopardalis, camēlopardalus
- camēlopardus
- camēlopodion
- camēlōtus, camēlētus
- hippocamēlus
Descendants
Inherited from the form camellus:
- Asturian: camellu
- Corsican: camellu
- Emilian: camèl
- Italian: cammello
- Ladin: camel
- Old Navarro-Aragonese:
- Aragonese: camello
- Old French: chamel, cameil, camuel
- Old Ligurian: gameo
- Old Occitan:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: camelo, camello
- Old Spanish: camello
- Sardinian: camellu
- Sicilian: jamiḍḍu, gamiḍḍu
- Venetan: camèło
Borrowed:
Further reading
- “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, 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.