Camera

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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

• Catalan: camera f (1, 2)
• Dutch: fotoapparaat n (1), camera m (1, 2)
• French: appareil-photo m (1), caméra m (2)
• Finnish: kamera
• German: Fotoapparat m (1), Kamera f (1, 2)
• Modern Greek: καμερά, (kamerá)
• Indonesian: kamera
• Interlingua: camera
• Italian: macchina fotographica f (1)
• Japanese: カメラ (kamera)
• Portuguese: câmera f
• Polish: kamera f
• Romanian: camera photographica f, machina photographica f
• Russian: фотоаппарат m
• Slovak: fotoaparát m (1), kamera f (2)
• Swedish: kamera c (1,2)
• Turkish: 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