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camera

Pronunciation: /ˈkæməɹə/

The English word “camera” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A device for taking still or moving pictures or photographs.
  2. The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
  3. A vaulted room.
  4. A judge's private chamber, where cases may be heard in camera.

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.…

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