name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
camera
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæməɹə/
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkæmɹə/
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British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard: /ˈkaməɹə/
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British, Northern-England, Southern, Standard: /ˈkamɹə/
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Scotland, Wales: /ˈkaməɾə/
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Scotland, Wales: /ˈkamɾə/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkæməɹə/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkæmɚ.ə/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈkæmɹə/
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US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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New-Zealand: /ˈkɛməɹə/
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New-Zealand: /ˈkɛmɹə/
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noun
Meaning 2
A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: arts, hobbies, lifestyle, photography
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, video-games
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noun
Meaning 4
A vaulted room.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: photographic camera
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: photographic equipment
Narrower terms: box camera, box Kodak, candid camera, digital camera, flash camera, motion-picture camera, movie camera, cine-camera, point-and-shoot camera, Polaroid camera, Polaroid Land camera, portrait camera, reflex camera
noun
Meaning 7
television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: television camera, tv camera
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: television equipment, video equipment
Narrower terms: camcorder
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh2em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.
Across languages
Translations
314 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: апатреҭҭыхга (apʼatʼrettəxga) — still camera
- Afrikaans: kamera — still camera
- Albanian: aparat fotografik — still camera
- Albanian: kamerë — still camera
- Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera) — still camera
- Arabic: كَمِرَة (kamira) — still camera
- Arabic: كَامِيرَا (kāmērā) — still camera
- Arabic: آلَة تَصْوِير (ʔālat taṣwīr) — still camera
- Arabic: مُصَوِّرَة (muṣawwira) — still camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬܵܐ (mṣawrānītā) — still camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ (kāmīrā) — still camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā) — still camera
- Armenian: ֆոտոխցիկ (fotoxcʻik) — still camera
- Assamese: কেমেৰা (kemera) — still camera
- Asturian: cámara — still camera
- Azerbaijani: fotoaparat — still camera
- Belarusian: фатаапара́т (fataaparát) — still camera
- Belarusian: ка́мера (kámjera) — still camera
- Belarusian: фатака́мера (fatakámjera) — still camera
- Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera) — still camera
- Bole: kemara — still camera
- Bulgarian: фотоапара́т (fotoaparát) — still camera
- Bulgarian: фотока́мера (fotokámera) — still camera
- Burmese: ကင်မရာ (kangma.ra) — still camera
- Catalan: càmera — still camera
- Cherokee: ᏗᏓtᎵᎶᏍᏙᏗ (didaTlilosdodi) — still camera
- Chickasaw: ishholbachi' — still camera
- Chinese Cantonese: 相機 /相机 — still camera
- Chinese Cantonese: 影相機 /影相机 — still camera
- Chinese: җощёнҗи (žoxionji) — still camera
- Chinese: 翕像機 /翕像机 (hip-siōng-ki) — still camera
- Chinese Mandarin: 照相機 /照相机 (zhàoxiàngjī) — still camera
- Chinese Mandarin: 相機 /相机 (xiàngjī) — still camera
- Cornish: kamera — still camera
- Czech: fotoaparát — still camera
- Czech: foťák — still camera
- Danish: kamera — still camera
- Danish: fotografiapparat — still camera
- Danish: fotoapparat — still camera
- Dutch: fototoestel — still camera
- Dutch: fotoapparaat — still camera
- Dutch: camera — still camera
- Esperanto: fotilo — still camera
- Esperanto: fotografilo — still camera
- Estonian: fotoaparaat — still camera
- Estonian: fotokas — still camera
- Farefare: kamera — still camera
- Finnish: kamera — still camera
- Finnish: valokuvakamera — still camera
- French: appareil photo — still camera
- Galician: cámara — still camera
- Georgian: ფოტოაპარატი (poṭoaṗaraṭi) — still camera
- German: Fotoapparat — still camera
- German: Kamera — still camera
- Greek: φωτογραφική μηχανή (fotografikí michaní) — still camera
- Gujarati: કેમેરા (kemerā) — still camera
- Haitian Creole: kodak — still camera
- Hausa: kyamara — still camera
- Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה (matslemá) — still camera
- Hindi: कैमरा (kaimrā) — still camera
- Hungarian: kamera — still camera
- Hungarian: fényképezőgép — still camera
- Icelandic: myndavél — still camera
- Ido: fotografilo — still camera
- Indonesian: kamera — still camera
- Indonesian: tustel — still camera
- Irish: ceamara — still camera
- Irish: grianghrafadán — still camera
- Italian: fotocamera — still camera
- Italian: macchina fotografica — still camera
- Japanese: カメラ (kamera) — still camera
- Japanese: 写真機 (shashinki) — still camera
- Kannada: ಕ್ಯಾಮೆರಾ (kyāmerā) — still camera
- Kazakh: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat) — still camera
- Kazakh: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Khmer: គ្រឿងថត (krɨəng thɑɑt) — still camera
- Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនថតរូប (maasɨn thɑɑt ruup) — still camera
- Korean: 카메라 (kamera) — still camera
- Korean: 사진기 (sajin'gi) — still camera
- Ktunaxa: k̓ituqǂiǂqamunamnam — still camera
- Northern Kurdish: kamera — still camera
- Kyrgyz: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat) — still camera
- Kyrgyz: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Ladin: pultradoia — still camera
- Lao: ກ້ອງຖ່າຍຮູບ (kǭng thāi hūp) — still camera
- Lao: ກ້ອງຊັກຮູບ (kǭng sak hūp) — still camera
- Latvian: fotoaparāts — still camera
- Limburgish: camera — still camera
- Lithuanian: fotoaparatas — still camera
- Luhya: ekamera — still camera
- Macedonian: фотоапара́т (fotoaparát) — still camera
- Macedonian: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Malay: kamera — still camera
- Malayalam: ഛായാഗ്രാഹി (chāyāgrāhi) — still camera
- Manx: camerey — still camera
- Manx: shamraig — still camera
- Māori: kāmera — still camera
- Māori: pūwhakaahua — still camera
- Marathi: कॅमेरा (kĕmerā) — still camera
- Mauritian Creole: kamera — still camera
- Mongolian: зургийн аппарат (zurgiin apparat) — still camera
- Mongolian: фото аппарат (foto apparat) — still camera
- Mongolian: камер (kamer) — still camera
- Nepali: क्यामेरा (kyāmerā) — still camera
- Norman: quéméreu — still camera
- Norman: caméra — still camera
- Norwegian Bokmål: kamera — still camera
- Norwegian Bokmål: fotoapparat — still camera
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kamera — still camera
- Norwegian Nynorsk: fotoapparat — still camera
- Ojibwe: mazinaakizigan — still camera
- Pannonian Rusyn: фотоапарат (fotoaparat) — still camera
- Pannonian Rusyn: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Pannonian Rusyn: сликерня (slikernja) — still camera
- Pashto: کامره (kāmra) — still camera
- Pashto: کېمره (kemra) — still camera
- Pashto: کمره (kemra) — still camera
- Dari: کَمْرَه (kamra) — still camera
- Iranian Persian: دورْبین (durbin) — still camera
- Iranian Persian: کامِرا (kâmerâ) — still camera
- Polish: aparat fotograficzny — still camera
- Portuguese: câmara fotográfica — still camera
- Portuguese: câmera fotográfica — still camera
- Portuguese: máquina fotográfica — still camera
- Punjabi: ਕੈਮਰਾ (kaimrā) — still camera
- Romanian: aparat foto — still camera
- Romanian: aparat fotografic — still camera
- Romanian: cameră foto — still camera
- Russian: фотоаппара́т (fotoapparát) — still camera
- Russian: ка́мера (kámera) — still camera
- Russian: фотока́мера (fotokámera) — still camera
- Scottish Gaelic: camara — still camera
- Serbo-Croatian: фотоапа̀ра̄т — still camera
- Serbo-Croatian: ка̀мера — still camera
- Serbo-Croatian: fotoapàrāt — still camera
- Serbo-Croatian: kàmera — still camera
- Sicilian: màchina fotuggràfica — still camera
- Sinhalese: කැමරාව (kæmarāwa) — still camera
- Slovak: fotoaparát — still camera
- Slovene: fotoaparat — still camera
- Southern Altai: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat) — still camera
- Southern Altai: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Spanish: cámara — still camera
- Spanish: cámara fotográfica — still camera
- Spanish: fotocámara — still camera
- Spanish: kódak — still camera
- Spanish: lente — still camera
- Spanish: kodak — still camera
- Swahili: kamera — still camera
- Swedish: kamera — still camera
- Tagalog: kamera — still camera
- Tagalog: kodak — still camera
- Tajik: фотоаппарат (fotoapparat) — still camera
- Tajik: суратгирак (suratgirak) — still camera
- Tajik: камера (kamera) — still camera
- Tajik: аксбардорак (aksbardorak) — still camera
- Tajik: дурбини аккосӣ (durbin-i akkosi) — still camera
- Tamil: கேமரா (kēmarā) — still camera
- Telugu: కెమెరా (kemerā) — still camera
- Thai: กล้องถ่ายรูป (glɔ̂ng-tàai-rûup) — still camera
- Thai: กล้องถ่ายภาพ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-pâap) — still camera
- Thai: กล้อง (glɔ̂ng) — still camera
- Tibetan: པར་ཆས (par chas) — still camera
- Tibetan: དཔར་ཆས (dpar chas) — still camera
- Tigrinya: ካመራ (kamära) — still camera
- Turkish: fotoğraf makinesi — still camera
- Turkmen: fotoapparat — still camera
- Turkmen: kamera — still camera
- Ukrainian: фотоапара́т (fotoaparát) — still camera
- Ukrainian: ка́мера (kámera) — still camera
- Ukrainian: фотока́мера (fotokámera) — still camera
- Unami: lèkhasitunk — still camera
- Urdu: کَیمْرَہ (kaimra) — still camera
- Urdu: کَیمْرا (kaimrā) — still camera
- Urdu: عَکَاسَہ ('akāsa) — still camera
- Uyghur: فوتو ئاپپارات (foto apparat) — still camera
- Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra) — still camera
- Uzbek: fotoapparat — still camera
- Uzbek: kamera — still camera
- Vietnamese: máy hình — still camera
- Vietnamese: máy chụp hình — still camera
- Vietnamese: máy chụp ảnh — still camera
- Vietnamese: máy ảnh — still camera
- Vietnamese: ca-mê-ra — still camera
- Welsh: camera — still camera
- Yami: sisiva — still camera
- Yiddish: אַפּאַראַט (aparat) — still camera
- Yiddish: פֿאָטאָגראַפֿישער אַפּאַראַט (fotografisher aparat) — still camera
- Yiddish: פֿאָטאָאַפּאַראַט (fotoaparat) — still camera
- Yiddish: קאַמערע (kamere) — still camera
- Afrikaans: kamera — movie camera
- Albanian: kamerë — movie camera
- Albanian: videokamerë — movie camera
- Amharic: ካሜራ (kamera) — movie camera
- Arabic: كَامِيرَا (kāmērā) — movie camera
- Arabic: كَامِيرَا فِيدِيُو (kāmērā fīdiyū) — movie camera
- Arabic: آلَةُ تَصْوِيرِ فِيدِيُو (ʔālatu taṣwīri fīdiyū) — movie camera
- Arabic: آلة تصوير (ʔālet taṣwīr) — movie camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܡܨܲܘܪܵܢܝܼܬ ܙܘܼܠܚܸܙܘܵܐ (mṣawrānīt zulḥizwā) — movie camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܵܡܝܼܪܵܐ (kāmīrā) — movie camera
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܩܹܘܵܐ ܕܨܲܝܵܪܘܼܬܵܐ (sqēwā d-ṣayyārutā) — movie camera
- Armenian: տեսախցիկ (tesaxcʻik) — movie camera
- Asturian: cámara — movie camera
- Azerbaijani: kamera — movie camera
- Azerbaijani: videokamera — movie camera
- Belarusian: відэака́мера (videakámjera) — movie camera
- Belarusian: ка́мера (kámjera) — movie camera
- Bengali: ক্যামেরা (kêmera) — movie camera
- Bengali: ভিডিও ক্যামেরা (bhiḍiō kêmera) — movie camera
- Bulgarian: ка́мера (kámera) — movie camera
- Bulgarian: ви́деока́мера (vídeokámera) — movie camera
- Catalan: càmera de vídeo — movie camera
- Chinese Mandarin: 攝影機 /摄影机 (shèyǐngjī) — movie camera
- Chinese Mandarin: 攝像機 /摄像机 (camcorder) — movie camera
- Czech: kamera — movie camera
- Czech: videokamera — movie camera
- Danish: kamera — movie camera
- Danish: videokamera — movie camera
- Dutch: camera — movie camera
- Dutch: videocamera — movie camera
- Esperanto: kamerao — movie camera
- Estonian: kaamera — movie camera
- Estonian: videokaamera — movie camera
- Finnish: kamera — movie camera
- Finnish: elokuvakamera — movie camera
- Finnish: videokamera — movie camera
- French: caméra — movie camera
- Galician: videocámara — movie camera
- Galician: cámara — movie camera
- Georgian: კამერა (ḳamera) — movie camera
- German: Videokamera — movie camera
- German: Kamera — movie camera
- Greek: βιντεοκάμερα (vinteokámera) — movie camera
- Hebrew: מַצְלֵמָה (matslemá) — movie camera
- Hebrew: מַצְלֵמַת וִידֵאוֹ (matslemát víde'o) — movie camera
- Hindi: वीडियो कैमरा (vīḍiyo kaimrā) — movie camera
- Hungarian: kamera — movie camera
- Hungarian: videókamera — movie camera
- Icelandic: myndavél — movie camera
- Icelandic: upptökuvél — movie camera
- Icelandic: kvikmyndavél — movie camera
- Ido: filmregistrilo — movie camera
- Indonesian: kamera video — movie camera
- Irish: ceamara — movie camera
- Irish: ceamara scannán — movie camera
- Irish: físcheamara — movie camera
- Italian: videocamera — movie camera
- Italian: telecamera — movie camera
- Japanese: ビデオカメラ (bideokamera) — movie camera
- Japanese: カメラ (kamera) — movie camera
- Kazakh: камера (kamera) — movie camera
- Kazakh: бейнекамера (beinekamera) — movie camera
- Khmer: កាមេរ៉ា — movie camera
- Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនថតកុន (maasɨn thɑɑt kon) — movie camera
- Khmer: ម៉ាស៊ីនថតវីដេអូ (maasɨn thɑɑt viideeʼou) — movie camera
- Korean: 비디오 카메라 (bidio kamera) — movie camera
- Korean: 카메라 (kamera) — movie camera
- Kyrgyz: камера (kamera) — movie camera
- Kyrgyz: видео камера — movie camera
- Lao: ກ້ອງວິດີໂອ (kǭng wi dī ʼō) — movie camera
- Latvian: kamera — movie camera
- Latvian: kinokamera — movie camera
- Latvian: videokamera — movie camera
- Lithuanian: kamera — movie camera
- Lithuanian: vaizdo kamera — movie camera
- Macedonian: камера (kamera) — movie camera
- Macedonian: видеокамера (videokamera) — movie camera
- Māori: kāmera — movie camera
- Māori: pū whakaahua — movie camera
- Mongolian: камер (kamer) — movie camera
- Mongolian: видео камер — movie camera
- Norman: quéméreu — movie camera
- Norman: caméra — movie camera
- Norwegian Bokmål: kamera — movie camera
- Norwegian Bokmål: videokamera — movie camera
- Polish: kamera — movie camera
- Polish: kamera wideo — movie camera
- Portuguese: videocâmara — movie camera
- Portuguese: videocâmera — movie camera
- Russian: видеока́мера (videokámera) — movie camera
- Russian: ка́мера (kámera) — movie camera
- Scottish Gaelic: camara — movie camera
- Serbo-Croatian: ка̀мера — movie camera
- Serbo-Croatian: видеока̀мера — movie camera
- Serbo-Croatian: kàmera — movie camera
- Serbo-Croatian: videokàmera — movie camera
- Sicilian: vidiucàmmira — movie camera
- Slovak: kamera — movie camera
- Slovak: videokamera — movie camera
- Slovene: kamera — movie camera
- Slovene: videokamera — movie camera
- Spanish: videocámara — movie camera
- Spanish: cámara videográfica — movie camera
- Swahili: kamera — movie camera
- Swedish: videokamera — movie camera
- Swedish: filmkamera — movie camera
- Tajik: камера (kamera) — movie camera
- Tajik: видеокамера (videokamera) — movie camera
- Thai: กล้องถ่ายวิดีโอ (glɔ̂ng-tàai-wí-dii-oo) — movie camera
- Thai: กล้องวิดีโอ (glɔ̂ng-wí-dii-oo) — movie camera
- Turkish: kamera — movie camera
- Turkmen: kamera — movie camera
- Turkmen: wideokamera — movie camera
- Ukrainian: відеока́мера (videokámera) — movie camera
- Ukrainian: ка́мера (kámera) — movie camera
- Uyghur: كامېرا (kamëra) — movie camera
- Uzbek: kamera — movie camera
- Uzbek: videokamera — movie camera
- Vietnamese: máy quay phim — movie camera
- Vietnamese: máy quay — movie camera
- Vietnamese: máy ghi hình — movie camera
- Vietnamese: ca-mê-ra — movie camera
- Vietnamese: máy quay vi-đê-ô — movie camera
- Yiddish: קאַמערע (kamere) — movie camera
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