camaraderie

Borrowed from French camaraderie, from Spanish camarada, from cámara (“bedroom”), from Latin camera (“a chamber”); see chamber. Literally “one with whom one shares one’s bedroom”. Compare comrade.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/ used in the English term as to have fun and banter with others

camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

1. Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
   • 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English‎:

     And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.

2. A spirit of familiarity and closeness
   • 1838, Caulincourt, Napoleon and his Times, Volume 1, page 175:

     There was not one of Napoleon's intimate friends, however high in rank, who would have ventured to indulge in the sort of camaraderie which was kept up between the Emperor and his old moustaches.

• chumminess
• comradery
• comradeship
• comradeliness

From camarade (from Spanish camarada (“roommate”), from cámara (“bedroom”), from camera (“room”), from καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”)) +‎ -erie.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.ʁad.ʁi/

camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie

• “camaraderie” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).