The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχαμαιλέων
- Latin · learned borrowing fromchamaeleon“chamaeleon”
- English todayChamaeleon
Learned borrowing from Latin chamaeleon (“chamaeleon”), from Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn). Doublet of chameleon. Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.