cama

bed
- 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.),A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:
  Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando unacama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.
  Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothedbed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them
Synonym:leito
platform of acart
garden plot

References

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Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cama”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “cama”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “cama”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane,María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “cama”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “cama”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega,→ISSN

Irish

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Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):/ˈkamˠə/

Adjective

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cama

nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitiveplural ofcam

Mutation

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Mutated forms ofcama
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cama	chama	gcama

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Latin

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Etymology

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Isidore, quoted below, folk-etymologises a dubious Greek origin. Still, no solid alternative is available. The distribution of its descendants may suggest it was borrowed fromPaleo-Hispanic.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key):/ˈkama/

Noun

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cama f (genitivecamae);first declension(Late Latin)

bed
- ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville],Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In:Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:
  Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus incamis, id est in stratis nostris.
  Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim χαμαὶ breve dicunt.
  They are called bed-shirts because in these we sleep onbeds, that is, on our beds.
  Abed is low and near the ground, for the Greeks say χαμαὶ for "low".

Declension

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First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cama	camae
genitive	camae	camārum
dative	camae	camīs
accusative	camam	camās
ablative	camā	camīs
vocative	cama	camae

Descendants

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Asturian:cama
Mirandese:cama
Old Galician-Portuguese:cama
- Galician:cama
- Portuguese:cama (see there for further descendants)
Spanish:cama (see there for further descendants)