καμαρία κοιτὼν καμάρας ἔχων

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `vault, vaulted room, wagon and bark with vaulted roof' (Hdt., LXX, Str.).

Dialectal forms: Ion. - ρη

Derivatives: - καμάριον (inscr.), καμαρία κοιτὼν καμάρας ἔχων H., καμαρικός `with a vault' (Ath. Mech.). Denomin. verbs: 1. καμαρόω `provide with a vault' with καμάρωσις `vault' (hell.), καμάρ-ωμα `vault' (Str., Gal.), - ωτός `vaulted' (Str.), - ωτικός `used in vaulting' (pap.); 2. καμαρεύω `bring together, exert oneself' (H.). - Further καμάρης δέσμης, καμάραι ζῶναι στρατιωτικαί, καμαρίς κοσμάριον γυναικεῖον H.; cf. below.

Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] from X

Etymology: καμάρα recalls Av. kamarā `girdle', with different meaning, but which is found in the glosses of H. καμάρη, καμαρίς (Fick KZ 43, 137, Schwyzer WuS 12, 31 n. 3; cf. also Weber PhW 54, 1068ff., Kretschmer Glotta 26, 62f.). One adduces also Lat. camurus, -a, -um `curved (of hornes), vaulted'. Other comparisons remain uncertain: Skt. kmárati `be curved' (gramm.; s. Mayrhofer Wb. s. v.), gr. κμέλεθρον from *κμέρεθρον (?; cf. s. v.), the German. word for `heaven', e. g. Goth. himins. For a loan from an eastern language: Fick l. c. (from Iranian), Solmsen BphW 1906, 852f. (from Carian acc. to sch. Orib. 46, 21, 7; against it Bq 402 n.). - From Greek Lat. camera and from there into Germanic and Baltoslavic. Pok. 524, W.-Hofmann s. camera and camurus; s. also Bq. - Cf. κάμινος.

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