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noun, masculine

chameau

/ʃa.mo/

noun, masculine/ʃa.mo/plural: chameaux

chameau is masculine in French.

camel

Related: chameau de Bactriane, chamelée, chamelet, chamelier, chamellerie, chamelon, sobre comme un chameau

Inherited from Middle French chameau, from Old French chamel, inherited from Vulgar Latin *camellus, a variant of Classical Latin camēlus (which would have yielded *chamoil).