cama

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːmə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːmə
• Homophones: comma (father-bother merger); karma (non-rhotic)

cama (plural camas)

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

• AACM, ACMA, AMAC, MCAA, maca

From Late Latin cama.

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈka.ma]

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cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

2. stem, stalk, stipe (of a plant)
3. gaskin (of a horse)

• “cama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/, [ˈka.ma]

cama

1. bed

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cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

From Old Galician-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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cama”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cama”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cama”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /ˈkamˠə/

cama

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cama	chama	gcama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Isidore, quoted below, folk-etymologises a dubious Greek origin. Still, no solid alternative is available. The distribution of its descendants may suggest it was borrowed from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

• 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.

     They are called bed-shirts because in these we sleep on beds, that is, on our beds.
     A bed is low and near the ground, for the Greeks say χαμαὶ for "low".

First-declension noun.

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

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama (see there for further descendants)

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cama	chama	cama pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Inherited from Late Latin camba. Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”). Cf. Catalan cama (“leg”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg
2. thigh

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

Inherited from Old Galician-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)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

• Kabuverdianu: kama
• → Chichewa: kama

• quarto

Inherited 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

   Synonyms: catre (Philippines), lecho (less common)

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

• “cama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28