1. cammărus — Lewis & Short
cammărus (camărus, gammă-rus), i, m., = ka/mmaros,
I a sea-crab, lobster (so called from its vaulted back), Varr. R. R. 3, 11, 3; Col. 8, 15, 6; 8, 17, 4; Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9; 31, 8, 44, § 96; Mart. 2, 43; Juv. 5, 84 al.
The corpus record — Latin
cammarus
cammarus · m
a sea-crab
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Where it lives
- Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2 · 0.25/10k
- Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k
What it meant
2. cammarus — Walde–Hofmann
cammarus, -; m. ,Meerkrebs, Hununer* (seit Varro, rom.; vulg. gambarus Orib., Demin. gammariunculus Cl): entlehnt aus gr. xdyHapoc m. ds. = an. humarr, nd. nhd. Hummer, vgl. ai. kamathah m. „Schildkröte? (mind. aus *kamar-tha-); wrsch. als „überwölbtes (oder gekrümmtes, Gray AJPh. 49, 38) Tier“ zu *gem- „wölben“, s. camur. — Walde-P. I 390. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. cammarus, p. 180]
In the wild
- cammaron Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.3
- cammarus Juvenal, Saturae 1.5.84
- cammarus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 32.11.p3
- cammarus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 8.15.6
- cammaro Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.3
- cammaron Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.27.p1
6 of 7 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cammarus (scan p. 114; entry #1615).
- Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. cammarus (scan p. 180; entry #533). Root candidates: *gem-.
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