caminata

== Latin == === Alternative forms === keminada (Kassel glosses) caminada, camenata === Etymology === Ellipsis of *[camera camīnāta], that is camera (“chamber”) and camīnus (“fireplace”) +‎ -āta (“provided with”). First attested in 584 CE in sense 1 and the ninth century in sense 3, which developed in northern France to fill the semantic space vacated by camīnus ("fireplace", later "chimney"), the latter having been locally discarded after it became a homophone for cammīnus (“path, way”) due to ongoing consonant degemination. The French descendant of camīnāta, namely cheminee, made its way into numerous other languages as chimney-making techniques spread from northern France. === Pronunciation === === Noun === camīnāta f (genitive camīnātae); first declension (Late Latin) room with a chimney, living room, parlour (Early Medieval Latin) bedroom (Early Medieval Latin) chimney ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “cheminée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “chimenea”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 361 Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “caminata”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 120 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “camīnus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 139 == Spanish == === Etymology === From caminar + -ata. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kamiˈnata/ [ka.miˈna.t̪a] Rhymes: -ata Syllabification: ca‧mi‧na‧ta === Noun === caminata f (plural caminatas) (long) walk, hike, trek ==== Related terms ==== ==== See also ==== paseo (“short walk”) === Further reading === “caminata”, 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