cam

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cam"

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kæm]
  • Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

A cam

Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”))

Noun

cam (plural cams)

  1. A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  2. A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  3. (Britain, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
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  4. (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

Further reading

Etymology 2

Clipping of camera, from the first part of Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), itself from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”), from Proto-Indo-European *kam- (“to arch”)

Noun

cam (plural cams)

  1. (informal) Camera.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

cam (third-person singular simple present cams, present participle camming, simple past and past participle cammed)

  1. To go on webcam with someone.

Etymology 3

Adverb

cam (comparative more cam, superlative most cam)

  1. Alternative form of kam

Further reading

  • cam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Acholi

Noun

cam

  1. food

French

Etymology

From English cam, a shortening of camera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kam/

Noun

cam f (plural cams)

  1. cam (device for filming)

Abbreviation

cam m (uncountable)

  1. (military, nautical) contre-amiral (rear admiral (RAdm))

Alternative forms

  • (contre-amiral): CAm

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /kaumˠ/
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /kɑːmˠ/
  • (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kamˠ/

Adjective

cam (genitive singular masculine caim, genitive singular feminine caime, plural cama, comparative caime)

  1. crooked

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cam cham gcam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Kurdish

Etymology

Related to Persian ‌جام‎ (jam).

Noun

cam f

  1. glass

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Adjective

cam (plural cammey)

  1. crooked
  2. deformed
  3. deceitful
  4. (of wood) knotty

Verb

cam (verbal noun cammey, past participle cammit)

  1. bow, distort, hook (as finger), crank (of object)

Mutation

Manx mutation
RadicalLenitionEclipsis
camchamgam
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Adjective

cam

  1. Alternative spelling of camm

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative cam cam cam
Vocative caim*
cam**
Accusative cam caim
Genitive caim caime caim
Dative cam caim cam
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative caim cama
Vocative camu
cama†
Accusative camu
cama†
Genitive cam
Dative camaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
cam cham cam
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin quam, or more likely from camai, from Latin quam magis.

Adverb

cam

  1. approximately, a little
  2. rather
    Lacul ăsta e cam murdar.
    This lake is rather dirty.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish camm, from Proto-Celtic *kambos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaːm/, /kʰaum/

Adjective

cam

  1. crooked, askew

Declension

First declension; forms of the positive degree:

Case Masculine singular Feminine singular Plural
Nominative cam cham cama
Vocative chaim chaim cama
Genitive chaim chaim/caime cam
Dative cham chaim cama

Comparative/superlative: caime

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian جام‎ (jâm).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʒam/

Noun

cam (definite accusative camı, plural camlar)

  1. glass

Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 柑 (“orange”).

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) cam

  1. orange

Derived terms

  • cam sành - a Vietnamese citrus fruit similar to an orange
  • cây cam - orange tree

Adjective

cam

  1. made of oranges
  2. (màu ~) of the colour orange

Derived terms

  • nước cam - orange juice (literally: "orange water")
  • sách màu cam - orange book (literally: "orange-coloured book")

Welsh

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *kanksman, *kanxsman, from *kengeti.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

  1. step, pace, footstep
  2. footfall (sound made by a footstep)
  3. footprint
  4. step (of a process), stage, phase
Derived terms
  • cam a cham (“step by step”)
  • camu (“to step”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *kambos. Compare Old Irish camm.

Adjective

cam (feminine singular cam, plural ceimion, equative camed, comparative camach, superlative camaf)

  1. bent, crooked, distorted
  2. wrong, false, incorrect
  3. wrong, unjust
Derived terms
  • ar gam (“unjustly, wrongly”)
  • camu (“to bend, to distort”)

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

  1. wrong, misdeed

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English cam.

Noun

cam m (plural camau)

  1. cam

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
cam gam ngham cham
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *c.raːmᴬ (“to ask”). Cognate with Thai ถาม (tǎam), Northern Thai ᨳᩣ᩠ᨾ, Lao ຖາມ (thām), Lü ᦏᦱᧄ (ṫhaam), Shan ထၢမ် (thǎam), Ahom 𑜌𑜪 (tham), 𑜌𑜉𑜫 (tham) or 𑜌𑜢𑜤𑜉𑜫 (thuem), Saek ถ่าม.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /ɕaːm˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: cam1
  • Hyphenation: cam

Verb

cam (old orthography cam)

  1. to ask (to request an answer)
  2. to inquire; to ask
  3. to ask for instructions
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