# cama
## English
### Etymology

Blend of camel +‎ llama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɑːmə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːmə
* Homophones: comma (father-bother merger); karma (non-rhotic)

### Noun

cama (plural camas)
* A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

#### See also

* cama fox

### Anagrams

* AACM, ACMA, AMAC, MCAA, maca

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

### Noun

cama f (plural cames)
* bed (piece of furniture)

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈka.mə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈka.ma]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

cama f (plural cames)
* leg
    Synonym: gamba
* stem, stalk, stipe (of a plant)
* gaskin (of a horse)

#### Derived terms

* cama-roig
* cama-sec
* cama-segat
* camagroc
* camal
* camejar
* camella
* cameta

### Further reading

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

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkama/, [ˈka.ma]

### Noun

cama
* bed

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

cama
* third-person singular past historic of camer

## Galician
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkɑmɐ]

### Noun

cama f (plural camas)
* 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
* platform of a cart
* garden plot

### References

* 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* 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

## Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkamˠə/

### Adjective

cama
* nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Latin
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkama/

### Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension (Late Latin)
* 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".

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* 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.

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.ma/

### Noun

cama f (plural camas)
* bed

#### Descendants

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

## Old Irish
### Adjective

cama
* Alternative spelling of camma

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Old Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkama/

### Noun

cama f (plural camas)
* leg
* thigh

### References

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.mɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ̃.mɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈkɐ.ma/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɐ.mɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈkɐ.mɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.mɐ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
* Hyphenation: ca‧ma

### Noun

cama f (plural camas)
* bed (furniture for sleeping on)
    Synonyms: leito, ninho

#### Derived terms

* acamar
* cama de casal
* cama elástica
* caminha (diminutive)
* camona (augmentative)
* de cama
* fazer a cama
* levantar do lado errado da cama
* roupa de cama
* saco-cama
* sofá-cama

#### Descendants

* Kabuverdianu: kama
* → Chichewa: kama
* ⇒? Kimbundu: mukama

#### See also

* quarto

## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -ama
* Syllabification: ca‧ma

### Noun

cama f (plural camas)
* bed
    Synonyms: catre (Philippines), lecho (less common)

#### Derived terms

* antecama
* caer en cama
* caer en la cama
* cama abatible
* cama de agua
* cama de galgos
* cama de matrimonio
* cama de tijera
* cama doble
* cama elástica
* cama individual
* cama matrimonial
* cama nido
* cama plegable
* cama turca
* camilla
* camita
* casa de camas
* colgadura de cama
* diosa de la cama
* en cama
* en la cama
* estar en cama
* guardar cama
* guardar la cama
* hacer la cama
* irse a la cama
* mojar la cama
* ropa de cama
* saltar de la cama
* salto de cama
* sofá cama
* tender la cama

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* “cama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “cama”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010