1612 Drayton Poly-Olb.Pref. ,To my friends, the Cambro-Britans.
1748 Smollett Rod. Rand. I. xxv. 233A prescription..which.. the Welchman..got up to prepare... This Cambro Briton..ordered the tar to run to his mess-mate.
1853 W. J. Rees ( title)Lives of the Cambro British Saints.
1871 Lowell Study Windows 164Tennyson in the Cambro-Breton cyclus of Arthur.
1925 J. Joly Surface-Hist. Earth iii. 57Almost complete submergence of North America in Cambro-Ordovician times.
1967 Oceanogr. & MarineBiol. V. 317Permanent ocean basins which have not changed significantly in their area or position since Cambro-Ordovician times, some 500 million years ago.
ORIGIN: Modern Latin , from Cambria (see Cambrian ), or from Cambrian : see -o- .
Cambro-
Prefix
- Welsh. 1868, Thomas Nicholas, The Pedigree of the English People, page 442:
- History proves that for centuries the Anglo-Saxons fought, formed treaties, intermarried with the Cymbric race [...] They even themselves passed through intermixture out of the properly Anglo-Saxon into the Cambro-Saxon phase, constituting in fact a new race.
1993, Martin John Ball and James Fife, The Celtic Languages, ISBN 0415010357, page 311:- In present-day Colloquial Welsh borrowed nouns retain noun plurals in the exact shape that they occur in Cambro-English; for example (in north-western areas): [kondəktərs] 'conductors', loris 'lorries'.
Etymology
From Cambria.