camion
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkamɪən/
Noun
camion (plural camions)
- A truck or wagon, especially one used to transport ordnance.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 12:
- There were small gray motor cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back seat. They splashed more mud than the camions even […]
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaːmˈjɔn/, /ˌkaː.miˈɔn/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ca‧mi‧on
- Rhymes: -ɔn
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French
Etymology
Unknown origin, however, most likely early 19th century. Possibly from chemin (“way, route”), see Spanish camino, or from Latin chamūlcus (“cart”), from Ancient Greek χᾰμουλκός (khamoulkós, “crane, windlass, or possibly other machine”), from χθών (khthṓn, “earth, ground”) + ἑλκέω (helkéō, “I drag”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.mjɔ̃/
audio (file) - (Marseille) IPA(key): /ka.mi.jɔ̃/
- (Toulouse) IPA(key): /ka.mi.ɔŋ/
- Rhymes: -jɔ̃
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Bulgarian: камион (kamion)
- → Dutch: camion
- → English: camion
- → Galician: camión
- → Hungarian: kamion
- → Italian: camion
- → Luxembourgish: Camion
- → Macedonian: камион (kamion)
- → Moore: kamiyõ
- → Portuguese: camião
- → Brazilian Portuguese: caminhão
- → Hunsrik: Kamiong
- → Romanian: camion
- → Serbo-Croatian: kamìōn/камѝо̄н
- → Sicilian: camiu, camiuni
- → Slovene: kamion
- → Spanish: camión
- → Switzerland German: Camion
- → Turkish: kamyon
- → Vietnamese: cam nhông
Further reading
- “camion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈka.mjon/
- Rhymes: -amjon
- Hyphenation: cà‧mion
Related terms
Further reading
- camion in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Romanian
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Declension
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