Etymology

cameraman

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Today it means: Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranian*kmárati
  3. Proto-Iranian*kamarā
  4. Ancient Greekκαμάρα (kamára)
  5. Latincamera
  6. Englishcamera
  7. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  8. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  9. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  10. Old Englishmann
  11. Middle Englishman
  12. English todaycameraman

From camera + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.