Etymograph

English

scamera

Blend of scam + camera.

A blend of scam + camera

English scamp ‘swindler, cheater’

English scam

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em- ‘to bend, curve’

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Proto-Iranian *kamárati

Proto-Iranian *kamarā- ‘something curved’

Ancient Greek καμάρα ‘vaulted chamber, vault’

Latin camera ‘chamber’

English camera

Today it means

noun A cheap, usually brandless, digital camera with poor image quality and having lower specifications than advertised.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “scamera”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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