camelus

From Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos, “camel”) from a Semitic language; compare Arabic جَمَل‎ (jamal) and Hebrew גָּמָל‎ (gamál).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaˈmeː.lus/, [kaˈmeː.ɫʊs]

camēlus m (genitive camēlī); second declension

1. A camel

Second declension.

• camēla
• Struthio camelus

• camēlārius
• camelelasia
• camelinus
• camelopardalis
• camelopodion
• hippocamelus

• Vulgar Latin: *camellus
• Italian: cammello
  • Old French: chamel, cameil, camel, camuel
    • English: camel
    • Middle French: chameau
      • French: chameau
        • Haitian Creole: chamo
        • Volapük: jamod
    • Old Irish: camall
      • Irish: camall
      • Scottish Gaelic: càmhal
  • Old Portuguese: camelo
    • Galician: camelo
    • Portuguese: camelo
  • Old Spanish: camello
    • Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling)
    • Spanish: camello

• 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, 1883–1887)
• camelus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette