Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, an arrangement in the form of connecting cavities or hollow cells.
- noun The vault or sphere of the heavens; one of the celestial ‘spheres’ of older astronomy.
- noun An arching; an arch or vault.
- noun An apartment; a chamber.
- noun In zoology, the state of being concamerated or multilocular.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An arch or vault.
- noun A chamber of a multilocular shell.
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- noun An
arch orvault . - noun zoology A
chamber of amultilocular shell .
Etymologies
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Latin concameratio.
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qroqqa commented on the word concameration
Howard alone looked up into the simple concameration of the roof, hoping for escape or relief or distraction.
—Zadie Smith, On Beauty
The Classical Latin camera meant "arch, vault" and was then transferred to a specifically arched or vaulted room. (The scene quoted above is a church.) In Late Latin it came to mean "room". So was there a Classical Latin for "room" generally, as in 'My villa has twelve rooms'? Cella is too specific: a small or side room, and wouldn't apply to the atrium or triclinium.
May 29, 2009