camello

• camelo

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).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈmeʎo/

camello m (plural camellos)

1. camel
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 5v:

     Catarõ ⁊ vierõ vna requa de paganos de los de ẏſmael. E vinien de galaat cõ ſos camellos cargados de mercaduras e ẏuã a egipto

     They looked up and saw a pagan caravan, of those of Ishmael. And they were coming from Gilead with their camels loaded with goods, and they were headed to Egypt.

• Ladino: kameyo (Latin spelling)
• Spanish: camello

• gamello (obsolete)

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.

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• Syllabification: ca‧me‧llo

camello m (plural camellos, feminine camella, feminine plural camellas)

1. camel

   Hyponym: dromedario

2. (informal) pusher, drug dealer

   Synonym: narcotraficante

   • 2019 March 11, “De Clint Eastwood siempre esperas más”, in El País‎:

     Existe algún momento divertido enlas aventuras de este camello tardío.

     There is some funny moment in the adventures of this late pusher.

• (Camelids) camélido; camello (dromedario, camello bactriano), llama, guanaco, alpaca, vicuña ^{(Category: es:Camelids)}

• → Bikol Central: kamelyo
• → Tagalog: kamelyo

• “camello”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014