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- comrade



[comrade 词源字典] - comrade: [16] Etymologically, one’s comrade is someone with whom one shares a room. The word came via French camerade from Spanish camarada ‘room-sharer’, a derivative of camara ‘room’, from Latin camera. Cameraderie is a 19th-century borrowing from French.
=> camaraderie, camera, chamber, chamberlain, chimney[comrade etymology, comrade origin, 英语词源] - comrade (n.)




- 1590s, "one who shares the same room," from Middle French camarade (16c.), from Spanish camarada "chamber mate," originally "chamberful," from Latin camera (see camera). In Spanish, a collective noun referring to one's company. In 17c., sometimes jocularly misspelled comrogue. Related: Comradely; comradeship.