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]