## Derived Forms
- aerocamera
- camback
- camcorder
- camera-ready
- camera-shy
- camera-worker
- cameraless
- cameralike
- cameraman
- cameraperson
- cameraphone
- cameratic

## Related Forms
- ante-camera
- anti-camera
- cameral
- camerate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *kh₂em-
- Root: camera
- Root: καμάρα
- Root: *kamarā-
- Root: *kmárati
- Root: camera obscura

## Etymology
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): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

## AI Etymology
Camera is a 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): A clipping of camera obscura, from New Latin camera obscura (“dark chamber”), because the first cameras used a pinhole and a dark room.

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