camello

== Chavacano == === Etymology === Inherited from Spanish camello (“camel”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ca‧me‧llo === Noun === camello camel == Old Spanish == === Alternative forms === camelo === Etymology === From Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus (additional /l/ due to influence from the ending -ĕllus, which did not however change the stressed vowel), from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kaˈmeʎo/ === Noun === camello m (plural camellos) camel ==== Descendants ==== Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling) Spanish: camello == Spanish == === Alternative forms === gamello (obsolete) === Etymology === Inherited from Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. More at camel. The sense of "drug dealer" comes from the fact that, in the early 20th century, dealers used to hide their drugs on their back when police came near. Some dealers even used to pretend to be hunchbacks, hiding the drugs in fake humps made of cardboard or tin. === Pronunciation === Syllabification: ca‧me‧llo === Noun === camello m (plural camellos, feminine camella, feminine plural camellas) camel Hyponym: dromedario (informal, Colombia, Ecuador) job, work Synonym: trabajo (informal, Colombia) labour, toil Synonym: trabajo (informal, Spain) pusher, drug dealer Synonym: narcotraficante ==== Coordinate terms ==== (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña (Category: es:Camelids) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Central Bikol: kamelyo → Tagalog: kamelyo === Verb === camello first-person singular present indicative of camellar === Further reading === “camello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025