Word Origin Summary

Χαμαιλέων is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• คาเมเลี่ยน

  Thai · borrowed from

• Chamaeleon

  Translingual · derived from

• カメレオン

  Japanese · borrowed from

• camaleón

  Galician · derived from

• chameleon

  English · derived from

• ĥameleono

  Esperanto · derived from

• kameleon

  Polish · derived from

• 카멜레온

  Korean · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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