camarae
Dictionary entries
- Entry →camara, camarae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Technical
vault, vaulted/arched room/roof/ceiling; small boat roofed over with timber;
dat. sg.gen. sg.loc. sg.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...pontones, vectoriae, mydia, phaseli, parones, myoparones, lintres, caupuli, camarae, placidae, cydarum, ratariae, catascopium. XXVI. Inscite ab Asinio Pollione..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...perturbatus excitat Simonidem.Vnum promorat uix pedem triclinio,ruina camarae subito oppressit ceteros;nec ulli iuuenes sunt reperti..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...quin et barbari contemptim vagabantur, fabricatis repente navibus. camaras vocant, artis lateribus latam alvum sine vinculo aeris..."
