camaeus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • cadmeus, camahuta, camahutus, caman', camantus, camau, camautus, camehu, cameu, cammaeus, cathmaieu, chamah, kaadmau, kamacu, kamaeta, kamahutum, kamahutus, kathmath'

Etymology

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

camaeus m (genitive camaeī); second declension

  1. (Medieval Latin) cameo (jewellery carved in relief)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative camaeus camaeī
genitive camaeī camaeōrum
dative camaeō camaeīs
accusative camaeum camaeōs
ablative camaeō camaeīs
vocative camaee camaeī

Descendants

  • → Catalan: camafeu
  • → Italian: cammeo
  • → Portuguese: camafeu
  • → Spanish: camafeo

References

  • "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
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “cameo”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Du. (1958). Germany: Conzett & Huber..
  3. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 287
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