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) IPA(key): /kaˈmeː.lus/, [käˈmeːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈme.lus/, [käˈmɛːlus]
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | 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
- camēlopardus
- camēlopardalis, camēlopardalus
- camēlopodion
- camēlōtus, camēlētus
- hippocamēlus
Descendants
Inherited from the form camellus:
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’s 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.
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