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|lshtext=<b>cămĕra</b>: (in MSS. and editt. also că-măra; cf. [[Charis]]. p 43 P.), ae, f., = [[καμάρα]] [cf. [[κάμπτω]] = to [[bend]], [[curve]]; Ital. [[camera]]; Germ. Kammer; Fr. chambre;<br /><b>I</b> Engl. [[chamber]], a [[vault]], an [[arched]] [[roof]], an [[arch]], Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 3; 3, 8, 1; Lucr. Fragm. ap. [[Charis]]. l. l.; Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1, § 1; Sall. C. 55, 4; Prop. 3 (4), 2, 10; Varr. R. R. 1, 59, 2; 3, 7, 3; Col. 4, 17, 8; 11, 3, 60: [[camera]] vitrea, [[covered]] [[with]] [[glass]], Plin. 36, 25, 64, § 189.—In ships, Suet. Ner. 34; cf. [[upon]] the [[manner]] of [[building]] [[them]], Vitr. 7, 3: camerae [[caelum]], the [[interior]] of a [[vault]] or [[arch]], id. ib.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., a [[flat]] [[ship]] [[with]] an [[arched]] [[covering]], used by those [[dwelling]] on the Black Sea, Tac. H. 3, 47; Gell. 10, 25, 5.

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