camur

See also: çamur

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kameros, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Compare campus for the root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.mʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.mur]

Adjective

camur (feminine camura, neuter camurum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -ur)

1. curved, bent, crooked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -ur).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	camur	camura	camurum		camurī	camurae	camura
genitive	camurī	camurae	camurī		camurōrum	camurārum	camurōrum
dative	camurō	camurae	camurō		camurīs
accusative	camurum	camuram	camurum		camurōs	camurās	camura
ablative	camurō	camurā	camurō		camurīs
vocative	camur	camura	camurum		camurī	camurae	camura

Descendants

• Old Northern French:
  • Norman: cambre (“bent”)
    • → French: cambre (from Norman or Picard)
      • → Italian: cambra
    • → Middle English: caumber, cambur, chambre
      • English: camber

Further reading

• “camur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “camur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “camur”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.