chamaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Swahili chama (“organisation, society”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtʃɑːmə/

名詞

chama (plural chamas)

1. (East Africa, chiefly Kenya) Any of several types of informal cooperative society.
   1. (often) Such a group for pooling and investing savings.

      Hypernym: ROSCA

アナグラム

• Macha

名詞

chāma f (genitive chāmae); first declension

1. bivalve, shellfish, clam; cockle

語形変化

First-declension noun.

語源 2

Unknown. Used by Pliny the Elder in Naturalis Historia.

名詞

chama n (genitive chamatis); third declension

1. lynx
   • (Can we date this quote?), Plinius, Naturalis Historia, liber I. In: Pliny Natural History with an English translation by H. Rackham, vol. I, 1961, p. 40–43:

     Libro VIII. continentur: [...] (xxvi-xxx) De camelis; genera eorum. de camelopardali; quando primimi Romae visa. de chamate. de cephis, de rhinocerote. de lynce et sphingibus. de crocottis. de cercopithecis.

     Book VIII. Contents: [...] (xxvi-xxx) Camels; their kinds. The giraffe; when first seen at Rome. The spotted lynx. The cephi. The rhinoceros. The lynx and the sphynxes. The crocottae. The long-tailed monkeys.
     Perhaps the hyena.

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Further reading

• “chama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "chama", 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)
• “chama”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.