cam aとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɑːmə/
• 韻: -ɑːmə
• 異形同音異義語: comma (father-bother merger); karma (non-rhotic)

名詞

cama (plural camas)

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

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

参考

アナグラム

• AACM, ACMA, AMAC, MCAA, maca

発音

• IPA: /ˈkama/

名詞

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.

     They are called bedshirts for we don them to sleep on beds, that is on our beds. / A bed is low and close to the ground; the Greeks therefore call it χαμαὶ (khamaì, “low”).

語形変化

First-declension noun.

派生した語

• Asturian: cama
• Mirandese: cama
• Old Galician-Portuguese: cama
  • Galician: cama
  • Portuguese: cama (see there for further descendants)
• Spanish: cama (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “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.