The corpus record — Latin

camera

camera · f

the interior of a vault

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Where it lives

Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
De Architectura 7 · 1.21/10k
Satyricon 3 · 0.99/10k
Catilina 1 · 0.94/10k
Fabulae Aesopiae 1 · 0.91/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 1 · 0.54/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. cămĕra — Lewis & Short

cămĕra (in MSS. and editt. also că-măra; cf. Charis. p 43 P.), ae, f., = kama/ra [cf. ka/mptw = to bend, curve; Ital. camera; Germ. Kammer; Fr. chambre;

I Engl. chamber], a vault, an arched roof, an arch, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 3; 3, 8, 1; Lucr. Fragm. ap. Charis. l. l.; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 1; Sall. C. 55, 4; Prop. 3 (4), 2, 10; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 2; 3, 7, 3; Col. 4, 17, 8; 11, 3, 60: camera vitrea, covered with glass, Plin. 36, 25, 64, § 189.—In ships, Suet. Ner. 34; cf. upon the manner of building them, Vitr. 7, 3: camerae caelum, the interior of a vault or arch, id. ib.—

II Transf., a flat ship with an arched covering, used by those dwelling on the Black Sea, Tac. H. 3, 47; Gell. 10, 25, 5.

2. camera — Walde–Hofmann

camera, camara (cammara Prob. app) -ae f. ,gewülbte Decke, Zimmerwölbung, Barke mit gewölbtem rotterdach u. dgl* (seit Varro und Cic., rom., ebenso -äre „wölben“ und -ärius Adj. „sich in die Höhe wölbend“ seit Plin., spätl. „Kämmerer“; Demin. camella f. „Schale für Flüssigkeiten“ seit Laber., rom., Nbf. gamella Gramm): entlehnt aus gr. kaudpa f. „Gewölbe, bedeckte Gondel usw.* Saalfeld; nicht karisches Wort mit … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. camera, p. 178]

In the wild

camerae Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.4.4
camerae Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2
camera Sallust, Catilina 55
cameram Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.249
cameram Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.11.p3
cameris Vitruvius, De Architectura 7.3.3.p2

6 of 26 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. camera (scan p. 114; entry #1610).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. camera (scan pp. 178-179; entry #529).

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