camarilla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (chamber) and the diminutive suffix -illa.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

camarilla (plural camarillas)

  1. A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
    • 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:
      The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
    • 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 369:
      The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ma.ʁi.ja/
  • (file)

Noun

camarilla f (plural camarillas)

  1. camarilla

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish camarilla.

Noun

camarilla f (plural camarille)

  1. camarilla

Further reading

  • camarilla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Spanish

Etymology

From cámara (chamber) + -illa (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /kamaˈɾiʝa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʝa]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /kamaˈɾiʎa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʎa]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kamaˈɾiʃa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʃa]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kamaˈɾiʒa/ [ka.maˈɾi.ʒa]

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -iʝa
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -iʎa
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -iʃa
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -iʒa

  • Syllabification: ca‧ma‧ri‧lla

Noun

camarilla f (plural camarillas)

  1. a secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal
    • "El objetivo implícito de esta línea de pensamiento es un mundo de pesadilla en el que el líder, o alguna camarilla gobernante, controla no sólo el futuro sino también el pasado." George Orwell, «Mirando hacia atrás a la guerra civil española.» (otoño de 1942)

Descendants

  • Catalan: camarilla
  • English: camarilla
  • French: camarilla
  • Italian: camarilla

Further reading

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