Camera

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.2.2 Derivatives 1.3 See also 2 Italian 2.1 Noun 2.2 Related terms 3 Latin 3.1 Noun 3.1.1 Derivatives

English

Etymology

From Latin camera obscura , dark chamber, because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room; from Latin camera, chamber.

Noun

camera (cameras )

1. a device for taking still photographs
2. a device for recording moving pictures on to film or video

Translations

• camera f (1, 2)

  fotoapparaat n (1), camera m (1, 2)

  appareil-photo m (1), caméra m (2)

  kamera

  Fotoapparat m (1), Kamera f (1, 2)

  καμερά , (kamerá)

  kamera

• Interlingua: camera

  macchina fotographica f (1)

  カメラ (kamera)

  câmera f

  kamera f

  camera photographica f, machina photographica f

  фотоаппарат m

  fotoaparát m (1), kamera f (2)

  kamera c (1,2)

  kamera

Derivatives

• cameraman
• camera operator

See also

• camcorder
• cine camera or ciné camera
• digital camera
• pinhole camera
• video camera

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Italian

Noun

camera

1. room, chamber
2. assembly, parliament
3. camera (for taking moving pictures)

Related terms

• cameriere

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Latin

Noun

camera, camerae f (First declension )

1. room, chamber

Derivatives

• camera obscura
• camerlengo
• in camera