camera(カメラ)
要点カメラ
意味
- カメラ,写真機
- テレビ[用]カメラ
例文
You need another ten dollars to buy that camera.
あのカメラを買うにはもう10ドル必要です。
Would you take a picture of us with this camera?
このカメラで私たちの写真を撮っていただけますか。
Your camera may be stolen if you leave it there.
カメラをそこへおいておくと盗まれるかもしれないよ。
語源
ラテン語camera「部屋」から。camera obscura(暗い部屋)で像を映す装置略して「カメラ」。
chamber(部屋)と同じ語源。
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Learned borrowing from Latin camera (“chamber or bedchamber”), from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “anything with an arched cover, a covered carriage or boat, a vaulted chamber, a vault”), of Old Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian *kamarā- (“something curved”), from *kamárati, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmárati, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- (“to bend, curve”). Doublet of chamber. (device): An ellipsis of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.