camaeus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === cadmeus, camahuta, camahutus, caman', camantus, camau, camautus, camehu, cameu, cammaeus, cathmaieu, chamah, kaadmau, kamacu, kamaeta, kamahutum, kamahutus, kathmath' === Etymology === Unknown, first attested 1295. Perhaps borrowed from Classical Persian خماهن (xumāhan, “agate”) or Arabic قَمَائِل (qamāʔil, “buds of a flower”). Compare French camaïeu. === Noun === camaeus m (genitive camaeī); second declension (Medieval Latin) cameo (jewellery carved in relief) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: camafeu → Italian: cammeo → English: cameo → Esperanto: kameo → French: camée → German: Kamee → Polish: kamea → Russian: каме́я (kaméja) → Portuguese: camafeu → Spanish: camafeo === References === "camaeus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “camahutus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill Plantzos, Dimitros (1996), “Hellenistic Cameos: Problems of Classification and Chronology”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, volume 41, number 1, pages 115–116