The camel takes its name from its characteristics, either because when they are being loaded, they lie down so that they become short and low, for the Greeks say “χαμαί” (lit. “on the ground”) for “low” and “short”, or because their backs are curved, as “καμουρ” means “curve” in Greek…
-The Etymologies, Book XII.i.35, Isidore of Seville (560-636)
I am surprised that Isidore did not consider the Arabic origin of the Latin word Camelus. If he’d only listened to KhairAllah speak to his Jamal, he would have heard him say, Yā Jamīl, Yā Jamāl, Yā Ajmal min al-Jimāl, O Beautiful One! O Beauty! O Most Beautiful of Camels!