The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromκαμάρα“vaulted chamber”
- Latin · derived fromcamera
- Old French · derived fromchambre
- Middle English · inherited fromchambre
- English todaychamber
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Words from the same roots
Latincamera all →
cameracameral
Ancient Greekκαμάρα all →
cameracameralismcameralist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.