cameratan.

Etymology: < Italian camerata group of people living together harmoniously or pursuing a common artistic or intellectual interest (a1584), late 16th-cent. Florentine group of musicians, composers, and intellectuals under the patronage of Count Giovanni de'Bardi (1600; usually with capital initial), group of room-mates (a1603; 1751 or earlier with specific reference to such groups in an academy in Parma, in the passage translated in quot. 1757 (where the Italian word is used in a German context); a1764 or earlier with specific reference to such groups in theological colleges in Rome), small group of musicians or singers who perform together (1936 or earlier; usually with capital initial; frequently in the names of such groups, e.g. Camerata Milanese del Madrigale (1936 or earlier), Camerata di Cremona (1963 or earlier)) < camera room, chamber (see chamber n.) + -ata -ade suffix, probably after Spanish camarada comrade n. in its collective sense ‘group of room-mates’.In in camerata in quot. 1912 after Italian in camerata together, as a group (1712 or earlier, e.g. in andare in camerata to go as a group). O.E.D. Suppl. (1972) derived sense 1 from post-classical Latin camerata (noun), but there appears to be no evidence for a post-classical Latin use as noun in this sense.