Noun: camello
Gender: m
Hyphenation: ca‧me‧llo
| Singular m | camello |
| Singular f | camella |
| Plural m | camellos |
| Plural f | camellas |
Sample Sentences
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Juan Carlos Osorio ya consiguió camello. (Juan Carlos Osorio has already found a job.) [2023 April 14, “Juan Carlos Osorio ya consiguió ‘camello’: dirigirá en Egipto”, in El Colombiano, Colombia:]
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Hoy en día conseguir empleo es todo un camello. (Nowadays, finding a job is hard work.) [1998 May 13, “Un camello conseguir trabajo”, in El Tiempo, Colombia:]
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Existe algún momento divertido enlas aventuras de este camello tardío. (There is some funny moment in the adventures of this late pusher.) [2019 March 11, “De Clint Eastwood siempre esperas más”, in El País:]
Nouns inflected like camello
botellero,
paletero,
metafísico,
epistemólogo,
gibareño,
fiduciario,
petromacorisano,
evacuado,
subprefecto,
miliciano,
gibelino,
moguereño,
angloamericano,
sereno,
serbio,
gregario,
seboso,
sedero,
cristiano,
babilonio, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Old Spanish camello, from Vulgar Latin *camēllus, from Latin camēlus, from Ancient Greek κάμηλος (kámēlos), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *gamal-. More at camel.
2. The sense of "drug dealer" comes from the fact that, in the early 20th century, dealers used to hide their drugs on their back when police came near. Some dealers even used to pretend to be hunchbacks, hiding the drugs in fake humps made of cardboard or tin. See: Old Spanish Nouns '
camello', Old Spanish Nouns '
camello', Latin Nouns '
camēlus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κάμηλος'.
Verbs referencing "camello"
Galician Nouns
camelo, Portuguese Nouns
camelo.
Translations