camaeus
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- cadmeus, camahuta, camahutus, caman', camantus, camau, camautus, camehu, cameu, cammaeus, cathmaieu, chamah, kaadmau, kamacu, kamaeta, kamahutum, kamahutus, kathmath'
Etymology
[edit]Unknown, first attested 1295. Perhaps borrowed from Classical Persian خماهن (xumāhan, “agate”) or Arabic قَمَائِل (qamāʔil, “buds of a flower”).[1][2][3] Compare French camaïeu.
Noun
[edit]camaeus m (genitive camaeī); second declension
- (Medieval Latin) cameo (jewellery carved in relief)
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | camaeus | camaeī |
| genitive | camaeī | camaeōrum |
| dative | camaeō | camaeīs |
| accusative | camaeum | camaeōs |
| ablative | camaeō | camaeīs |
| vocative | camaee | camaeī |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- camaeus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “camahutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill
- Plantzos, Dimitros (1996) “Hellenistic Cameos: Problems of Classification and Chronology”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, volume 41, number 1, pages 115–116
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