Cameroon

Used in: 1 country

Origin: French

Borrowed from French Cameroun, from Portuguese Rio dos Camarões (“river of prawns”), a name given to the Wouri river estuary, in 1472 by the sailors of the Portuguese explorer Fernão do Pó (a.k.a. Fernando Pó), raving about the abundance of shrimps of the species Lepidophthalmus turneranus (the Cameroon ghost shrimp) in the river; camarão itself is from Latin cammarus (“lobster”), from Ancient Greek κάμμαρος (kámmaros, “a kind of lobster or shrimp”).

Etymology: Wiktionary (CC-BY-SA)

Name Variants & Related

Camero Root name
Abadie French origin
Abair French origin
Abare French origin
Abbeville French origin
Abdy French origin
Abitbol French origin
Achee French origin
Achey French origin

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Cameroon

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