caméra

Borrowed from English camera, itself from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”). Doublet of chambre, which was inherited from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ka.me.ʁa/

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caméra f (plural caméras)

1. video camera

• camescope

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

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

caméra m (plural caméras)

1. (Jersey, photography) camera

• quéméreu

• caméra digital (“digital camera”)