Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. muffulaMedieval Latinderived from
2. *molfellOld Frankishderived from
3. *mildijazProto-West Germanicderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• camoufler

  French · derived from

• camouflieren

  German · derived from

• camufla

  Romanian · borrowed from

• kamuflere

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• kamuflasje

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• kamuflag

  MSA · borrowed from

• camoufleren

  Dutch · borrowed from

• καμουφλάρω

  Greek · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root