cammarus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros), from Pre-Greek. This term is potentially a cognate of Danish hummer, Old Norse humarr (“lobster”) (which is the source of French homard).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cammarus m (genitive cammarī); second declension

  1. lobster

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cammarus cammarī
Genitive cammarī cammarōrum
Dative cammarō cammarīs
Accusative cammarum cammarōs
Ablative cammarō cammarīs
Vocative cammare cammarī

Descendants

References
  • cammarus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • cammarus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • cammarus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κάμμαρος 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 631
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