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feminine

/ˈkamaɾa/

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Translation

camera, chamber, room

Word origin

From Latin camera ('vaulted room, chamber'), borrowed from Greek kamara ('anything with an arched cover'). The photographic sense is a shortening of camera obscura. English 'chamber' and 'camera' share the root.

Origin: Latin
Root: camera
English cognates: chamber, camera

Grammar

Genderfeminine

Pluralcamaras

Examples

The security camera showed everything that happened that night.

I need to buy a new camera before the trip abroad.

The politicians discussed the law in the chamber for hours.

Sonríe , .

Smile at the camera, we are going to take a photo.

He left the camera in the taxi and never got it back.

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This word is part of lesson 12.