Timeline for Plural of "camera obscura"
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Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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Jun 2, 2015 at 10:18 | comment | added | Chris H | I've accepted your conclusion, though it wasn't the body of your answer that finally convinced me. OED 1st ed from archive.org doesn't give a plural but does have a citation for "Camera obscuras" from 1796. I'd given up on the 200+MB pdf but tried again. | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 10:16 | vote | accept | Chris H | ||
Jun 2, 2015 at 9:44 | comment | added | Yohann V. |
@ChrisH The term is based on the Latin camera, "(vaulted) chamber or room", and obscura, "darkened" (plural: camerae obscurae). This is Latin as you said. It is not the usage in English. (The other mention is by a french, in a french museum.) Do as you want, but I find wiki totally fine.
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Jun 2, 2015 at 9:39 | comment | added | Chris H | Wikipedia uses both "camera obscuras" and "camerae obscurae". I like the second, I trust neither. | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 9:32 | comment | added | Yohann V. | @ChrisH wiktionary or wikipedia? If you can read, hebrew article is nice | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 9:27 | comment | added | Chris H | You've found a few more sources, but note that the wikipedia article is inconsistent. | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 9:14 | history | edited | Yohann V. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jun 2, 2015 at 9:10 | comment | added | Yohann V. | @ChrisH Edited my answer. | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 9:04 | comment | added | Chris H | I was editing this into the question at the same time as you were writing your answer -- it copies the unconvincing definition only given in one relatively minor source. | |
Jun 2, 2015 at 8:54 | history | answered | Yohann V. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |