In Latin, camara or camera denoted a vaulted ceiling or roof. Later, the word simply mean “room, chamber” and was inherited by many European languages with that meaning. In the Spanish, the word became cámara, and a derivative of that was camarada “a group of soldiers quartered in a room” and hence “fellow soldier, companion.” That Spanish word was borrowed into French as camarade and then into Elizabethan English as both camerade and comerade.
He enjoys spending time with his old army comrades.
the boy, and two others who are known to be his comrades, are wanted for questioning by the police
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Smith is a comrade from Mexico, a character, to whom the song was written.—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2024 That crucially includes any potential leftovers, as no one should ever benefit from the murder of a comrade.—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Oct. 2024 Vitaly recalls a particularly brutal drone attack on a comrade.—Sebastian Shukla, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024 Yet Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão—a former revolutionary comrade—have invested enormous political capital into local refining, with Gusmão in particular seeing Tasi Mane as his personal legacy.—Charlie Campbell / Dili, Timor-Leste, TIME, 4 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for comrade
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Etymology
Middle French camarade group sleeping in one room, roommate, companion, from Old Spanish camarada, from cámara room, from Late Latin camera, camara — more at chamber
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