camaraderie

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French camaraderie.

Recent American pronunciations such as /ˌkɑməˈɹɑdəɹi/ and /ˌkɑmˈɹɑdəɹi/ are influenced by the cognate comrade.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/, /ˌkæm(ə)ˈɹɑdəɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkæməˈɹɑːdəɹi/, /ˌkæməˈɹædəɹi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

camaraderie (countable and uncountable, plural camaraderies)

1. Close friendship in a group of friends or teammates.
   • 2016 February 8, Marwan Bishara, “Why Obama fails the leadership test in the Middle East”, in Al Jazeera English‎^[1]:

     And regardless of their differences, they always act with such camaraderie and complicity among themselves.

2. A spirit of familiarity and closeness.
   • 1838, Caulincourt, Napoleon and his Times, volume 1, page 175:

     There was not one of Napoleon's intimate friends, however high in rank, who would have ventured to indulge in the sort of camaraderie which was kept up between the Emperor and his old moustaches.

Synonyms

• chumminess
• comradery
• comradeship
• comradeliness
• team spirit

Translations

close friendship in a group of friends

• Arabic: صَدَاقَة (ar) f (ṣadāqa)
• Belarusian: сябро́ўства n (sjabróŭstva), тавары́ства n (tavarýstva), дру́жба f (drúžba), тавары́скасць f (tavarýskascʹ)
• Bulgarian: друга́рство (bg) n (drugárstvo), прия́телство (bg) n (prijátelstvo)
• Catalan: camaraderia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友情 (zh) (yǒuqíng), 友誼／友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì)

• Danish: kammerateri n
• Dutch: kameraadschap (nl) f
• Finnish: toveruus (fi)
• French: camaraderie (fr) f
• German: Kameradschaft (de) f
• Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) f (synadelfikótita), συντροφικότητα (el) f (syntrofikótita)
• Hebrew: רֵעוּת (he) f (re'út)
• Hungarian: barátság (hu)
• Icelandic: félagsandi m, góður kunningsskapur m, góð samskipti n pl
• Japanese: 友情 (ja) (ゆうじょう, yūjō)
• Korean: 우정 (ko) (ujeong)
• Macedonian: другарство n (drugarstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Norwegian Bokmål: kameraderi (no) n

• Persian: رفاقت (fa) (refâqat)
• Polish: towarzystwo (pl) n, koleżeństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: camaradagem (pt) f, camaradaria f
• Russian: това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo), дру́жба (ru) f (drúžba)
• Serbo-Croatian: камарадерија f, kamaraderija f
• Spanish: camaradería (es) f
• Swedish: kamratskap (sv) n
• Turkish: arkadaşlık; dostluk
• Ukrainian: товари́ство (uk) n (tovarýstvo), дру́жба (uk) f (drúžba), прия́тельство n (pryjátelʹstvo)
• Vietnamese: tình bạn (vi)

a spirit of familiarity and closeness

• Catalan: camaraderia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 友誼／友谊 (zh) (yǒuyì)

• Danish: kammerateri n
• French: camaraderie (fr) f
• Greek: συναδελφικότητα (el) f (synadelfikótita)
• Hungarian: bajtársiasság (hu), összetartás (hu)
• Macedonian: другарство n (drugarstvo)
• Portuguese: camaradagem (pt) f, camaradaria f
• Russian: това́рищество (ru) n (továriščestvo)
• Spanish: camaradería (es) f
• Turkish: dostluk (tr)

See also

• camarade

French

Etymology

From camarade +‎ -erie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma.ʁa.dʁi/

Noun

camaraderie f (plural camaraderies)

1. camaraderie

Further reading

• “camaraderie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French camaraderie. By surface analysis, camarad +‎ -erie.

Noun

camaraderie f (plural camaraderii)

1. camaraderie

Declension

Declension of camaraderie

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) camaraderie	camaraderia	(niște) camaraderii	camaraderiile
genitive/dative	(unei) camaraderii	camaraderiei	(unor) camaraderii	camaraderiilor
vocative	camaraderie, camaraderio		camaraderiilor