Etymology

ante-camera

Today it means: An antechamber, specifically one where visitors wait before being given audience with an influential person such as a pope or monarch. Full definition →

Middle French anticamera ← Italian anticamera ← Spanish antecámara
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The story

  1. Spanish · derived fromantecámara
  2. Italian · borrowed fromanticamera
  3. Middle French · borrowed fromanticamera
  4. English todayante-camera

From Middle French anticamera and its etymon Italian anticamera, with substitution of ante-, originally after Spanish antecámara, itself after Italian.

Words from the same roots

Italiananticamera all →

anteroom

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.