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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkam.ma.rus/

Noun

cammarus m (genitive cammarī); second declension

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

Italian: gambero
Occitan: chambre, gambre
Old French: jamble
Portuguese: camarão
Spanish: cámaro, cámbaro, gámbaro

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

↑ 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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