camarlingus

Latin

Alternative forms

camerlengus, camerlingus, camberlingus, camerlanus, cambellanus

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *kamarling (“chamberlain”).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ka.marˈlin.ɡus/, [kämärˈlʲɪŋɡʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ka.marˈlin.ɡus/, [kämärˈliŋɡus]

Noun

camarlingus m (genitive camarlingī); second declension[1]

(Medieval Latin) chamberlain
(Medieval Latin) serf

Declension

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Descendants

Old French: chamberlein, chamberlain, chaumberlein, chambellan, chamberlayn, chamberlenc, chambreleyn
- Middle French: chambellan, chambellain, chamberlenc
  - French: chambellan (see there for further descendants)
- → Middle English: chamberlayn, chamberlein, chaumberlein, chaumberleyn, chamberleyn, chamberlain
  - English: chamberlain
- → Middle Armenian: ջամբռլայ (ǰambṙlay)
Old Occitan: camarlenc
- →? Old Catalan: camarleng
  - Catalan: camarlenc
  - → Spanish: camarlengo
- Occitan: camarlenc
Old Italian: camerlingo
- Italian: camerlengo
  - → English: camerlengo
- → French: camerlingue

References

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “camerlengus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 120

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