caméra

Borrowed from English camera, itself from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”). Doublet of chambre, which was inherited from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /ka.me.ʁa/

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caméra f (plural caméras)

1. (film) video camera
2. (anglicism, criticized, informal) camera (for still photos)

   Synonym: appareil photo

• caméra cachée
• caméra thermique

• camescope

• → Crimean Tatar: kamera
• → Turkish: kamera

• “caméra”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from English camera, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), from Latin camera (“chamber, bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”).

caméra m (plural caméras)

1. (Jersey, photography) camera

• quéméreu

• caméra digital (“digital camera”)