Chamaeleon

Betekenis (Engels)

A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, imagined to resemble a chameleon, which lies south of the constellations Carina and Musca.

Sinonieme

Chameleon

Vertalings

Chamäleon

Caméléon

Chamaeleon

Camaleonte

Chamaeleon

Camaleó

Chamaeleon

Χαμαιλέων

Kameleon

Chamaeleon

caméléon

Camaleão

Camaleón

Bukalemun

Etimologie (Engels)

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.