Masculine

camarade

Sentences
Meaning

  1. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) buddy, mate
  2. (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) comrade (companion or fellow socialist or communist)

Frequency

B2
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ka.ma.ʁad/
Etymology

Before 1571, camarade ("soldiers' dormitory") is feminine. 1587, in military slang camarade either masculine or feminine, with the sense of "who shares with someone else", thereafter "buddy"; 1869 political sense. From Spanish camarada, itself from cámara (“chamber”) rather than Italian camerata which is slightly later but which influenced the form camerade which is attested in the 16th and 17th centuries. Both Italian and Spanish correspond to the construction of French chambrée.

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