cameraman

See also: caméraman

English

Etymology

camera +‎ -man

Noun

cameraman (plural cameramen)

1. Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

   Coordinate term: camerawoman

   • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24:

     ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’

Synonyms

• camera operator
• cameraperson

Descendants

• → Albanian: kameraman
• → Catalan: cameràman
• → Czech: kameraman
• → French: caméraman
• → Italian: cameraman
• → Portuguese: cameraman
• → Romanian: cameraman
• → Turkish: kameraman

Translations

somebody who operates a film or TV camera

• Armenian: կինոօպերատոր (hy) (kinoōperator)
• Belarusian: кінаапера́тар m (kinaapjerátar)
• Catalan: cameràman m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 攝影者／摄影者 (shèyǐngzhě), 攝影師／摄影师 (zh) (shèyǐngshī)

• Czech: kameraman (cs) m
• Danish: kameramand c
• Esperanto: kameraisto
• Estonian: filmioperaator
• Faroese: myndamaður m
• Finnish: kuvaaja (fi), kameramies (fi)
• French: caméraman (fr) m, cadreur (fr) m
• Georgian: ოპერატორი (oṗeraṭori)
• German: Kameramann (de) m, Kamerafrau (de) f, Kameraoperateur m
• Greek: εικονολήπτης (el) m (eikonolíptis), εικονολήπτρια (el) f (eikonolíptria)
• Hungarian: operatőr (hu)
• Italian: operatore (it) m, addetto (it) m
• Japanese: 撮影技師 (さつえいぎし, satsuei gishi), カメラマン (kameraman)
• Korean: 카메라맨 (ko) (kameramaen)
• Marathi: कॅमेरामॅन m (kĕmerāmĕn)
• Norman: vidéoiste m or f
• Persian: فیلمبردار (filmbardâr)
• Polish: kamerzysta (pl) m
• Portuguese: cameraman m, câmera (pt) m
• Romanian: cameraman (ro) m
• Russian: киноопера́тор (ru) m (kinooperátor), телеопера́тор (ru) m (teleoperátor)
• Spanish: camarógrafo (es) m, camarógrafa (es) f, cámara (es) m or f
• Thai: ตากล้อง (th) (dtaa-glɔ̂ng)
• Turkish: kameraman (tr)
• Ukrainian: кіноопера́тор m (kinooperátor)
• Vietnamese: chuyên viên quay phim, chuyên viên ghi hình, người quay phim, người ghi hình
• Welsh: dyn camera m

French

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramen)

1. Alternative form of caméraman

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.me.ra.men/, /ˈka.me.ra.mɛn/
• Rhymes: -ameramen, -ameramɛn
• Hyphenation: cà‧me‧ra‧man

Noun

cameraman m or f by sense (invariable)

1. cameraman

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽj̃/ [ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽɪ̯̃]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽj̃/ [ˌkɐ̃.me.ɾaˈmẽɪ̯̃]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌkɐ.me.ɾaˈmẽj̃/ [ˌkɐ.me.ɾaˈmẽɪ̯̃]

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramen or cameramans)

1. cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)

   Synonyms: câmara, operador de câmara, cinegrafista

Romanian

Alternative forms

• camerman

Etymology

Borrowed from English cameraman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.me.raˈman/

Noun

cameraman m (plural cameramani)

1. cameraman (somebody who operates a film or TV camera)

Declension

Declension of cameraman

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) cameraman	cameramanul	(niște) cameramani	cameramanii
genitive/dative	(unui) cameraman	cameramanului	(unor) cameramani	cameramanilor
vocative	cameramanule		cameramanilor

Related terms

• cameră

References

• cameraman in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)