What is "camerata"

Camerata, a dormitory or a comrade in Italian or an adjective meaning chambered in Latin, may refer to:

• Camerata (music), a small chamber orchestra or choir
• Florentine Camerata, an Italian musical association of the late sixteenth century

• Camerata (crinoid), an extinct sub class of crinoids from the Middle to Late Devonian
• Camerata (worm), a worm genus in the family Uteriporidae

• Charles Félix Jean-Baptiste Camerata-Passionei di Mazzoleni (1826–1853), a French-Italian aristocrat
• Giuseppe Camerata (1718–1803), an Italian miniature painter and engraver

• Camerata Cornello, a municipality in the Province of Bergamo in the Italian region of Lombardy
• Camerata Nuova, a municipality in the Province of Rome in the Italian region Latium
• Camerata Picena, a municipality in the Province of Ancona in the Italian region March

• The Camerata, A fictional criminal organization in the video game Transistor.

The Camerata or camerate crinoids are an extinct subclass of Paleozoic stalked crinoids. They originated in the Middle Ordovician and became extinct in the end-Permian mass extinction, and reached their maximum diversity during the Mississippian.

Anatomically, they are distinguished by:

• fused junctions between the plates of the cup
• brachial plates incorporated into the cup
• tegmen forming a rigid roof over the mouth
• no less than ten and sometimes a very large number of free arms, often pinnulate

A camerata is a small chamber orchestra or choir, with up to 40 to 60 musicians or choristers.

Camerata is triclad genus in the sub family Uteriporinae.