ceamara

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈcamˠəɾˠə]

Noun

ceamara m (genitive singular ceamara, nominative plural ceamaraí)

1. (photography) camera

Declension

Declension of ceamara (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative ceamara ceamaraí vocative a cheamara a cheamaraí genitive ceamara ceamaraí dative ceamara ceamaraí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an ceamara na ceamaraí genitive an cheamara na gceamaraí dative leis an gceamara don cheamara leis na ceamaraí

Synonyms

• grianghrafadán

Derived terms

• físcheamara (“video camera”)

Related terms

• comhla (ceamara) (“shutter of camera”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceamara

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceamara	cheamara	gceamara

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “ceamara”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN