Camaro

[thegriffon]

In form it looks like Provençale, but:

French: Camarade

Provençal: Camarado (In Provencal camaro is a sack or bag)

Gasçon: Camarada

Niçois: Cambarada

Breton: Kamarad

Catalan: Camarada

Corsu: Cameratu

At last, an explanation!

"Maurice Grevisse, in the good use, draws the attention, for French, to a particular form of the apocope: “the popular or slang language enjoys to substitute for the final part of certain names generally appointing workmen, people belonging to such or such social category, one -o which is not other than a form graphically reduced of the suffix - ot (lat - ottum). This popular suffix -o [which has nothing to do with the abbreviation of the type -o, as in stylo(graphe), patro(nage)] gives to the word an off-hand aspect, picturesque, sometimes ironic: Proprio (propriétaire), anarcho (anarchiste), mécano (mécanicien), métallo (métallurgiste), camaro (camarade), apéro (apéritif), garno (garni), convalo (convalescence), prolo (prolétaire)” (Gembloux: Duculot, 1975, 10th éd. p.114, Rem.1)."

[thegriffon]

In form it looks like Provençale, but:

French: Camarade

Provençal: Camarado (In Provencal camaro is a sack or bag)

Gasçon: Camarada

Niçois: Cambarada

Breton: Kamarad

Catalan: Camarada

Corsu: Cameratu

At last, an explanation!

"Maurice Grevisse, in the good use, draws the attention, for French, to a particular form of the apocope: “the popular or slang language enjoys to substitute for the final part of certain names generally appointing workmen, people belonging to such or such social category, one -o which is not other than a form graphically reduced of the suffix - ot (lat - ottum). This popular suffix -o [which has nothing to do with the abbreviation of the type -o, as in stylo(graphe), patro(nage)] gives to the word an off-hand aspect, picturesque, sometimes ironic: Proprio (propriétaire), anarcho (anarchiste), mécano (mécanicien), métallo (métallurgiste), camaro (camarade), apéro (apéritif), garno (garni), convalo (convalescence), prolo (prolétaire)” (Gembloux: Duculot, 1975, 10th éd. p.114, Rem.1)."

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A few of these apocopes (such as proprio, listed by Oxford-Hachette as "very informal") are common enough to be listed in dictionaries and be handled well by translating programs, but camaro is not one of them.