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‡ cama, ae, f. [χαμαί = humi], a small bed near the ground, Isid. Orig. 20, 11, 2.

cămăcum, v. comacum.

Camaldūnum (Camalod-), i, n., v. Camuldunum.

camara, ae, v camera.

Cămărīna (in MSS. also Cămĕrī-na; cf. camera), ae, f. (acc. Gr. Camarinan, Ov. F 4, 477), = Καμάρῖνα, a city on the south-west coast of Sicily, a colony from Syracuse, now Camarana, Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 89; Serv. ad Verg. A. 3, 701; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 59.

cămăro, v. camero.

camarus, i, for cammarus, q. v.

† cămĕra (in MSS. and editt. also că-măra; cf. Charis. p 43 P.), ae, f., = καμάρα [cf. κάμπτω = to bend, curve; Ital. camera; Germ. Kammer; Fr. chambre;

  1. I. Engl. chamber], a vault, an arched roof, an arch, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 3; 3, 8, 1; Lucr. Fragm. ap. Charis. l. l.; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 1; Sall. C. 55, 4; Prop. 3 (4), 2, 10; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 2; 3, 7, 3; Col. 4, 17, 8; 11, 3, 60: camera vitrea, covered with glass, Plin. 36, 25, 64, § 189.
    In ships, Suet. Ner. 34; cf. upon the manner of building them, Vitr. 7, 3: camerae caelum, the interior of a vault or arch, id. ib.
  2. II. Transf., a flat ship with an arched covering, used by those dwelling on the Black Sea, Tac. H. 3, 47; Gell. 10, 25, 5.

cămĕrārĭus (cămă-), a, um, adj. [camera]: cucurbitae, which climb over something, climbing (opp. plebeiae, that creep upon the ground), Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 70.

cămĕro (cămă-), āre, v. a. [camera], to vault or arch over, Plin. 10, 30, 50, § 97.
Trop.: cameratum elogium, constructed with art, Cassiod. Hist. Eccl. 1, 1.

† cammărus (camărus, gammă-rus), i, m., = κάμμαρος, a sea-crab, lobster (so called from its vaulted back), Varr. R. R. 3, 11, 3; Col. 8, 15, 6; 8, 17, 4; Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9; 31, 8, 44, § 96; Mart. 2, 43; Juv. 5, 84 al.

Camulŏdūnum, i, n., a town of the Trinobantes in Britain, the first Roman colony under Claudius, now Colchester, Tac. A. 12, 32; 14, 31; also called Camalŏdū-num, Inscr. Orell. 208: Camolŏdūnum, Itin. Anton. p. 230 Parth.; and Camal-dūnum, Plin. 2, 75, 77, § 185.

comacum (cama-), i, n., a kind of cinnamon found in Syria, Plin. 12, 28, 63, § 135; 13, 2, 2, § 18; 1, ind. lib. 12, 63.