chameleon
意味
- カメレオン
- 移り気な人,節操のない人
例文
The chameleon can take on the colors of its background.
カメレオンは周りの色に合わせて体色を変えることができる。
The chameleon can change its skin color.
カメレオンは皮膚の色を変えることができます。
The chameleon can take on any color.
カメレオンはどんな色にでもなれる。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English camelion, from Old French cameleon, from Latin chamaeleon, from Ancient Greek χαμαιλέων (khamailéōn), from χαμαί (khamaí, “on the earth, on the ground”) + λέων (léōn, “lion”); ultimately a calque from Akkadian 𒌨𒈤𒊭𒆠 (nēšu ša qaqqari, “chameleon, reptile”, literally “lion of the ground", "predator that crawls upon the ground”). The spelling was re-Latinized in the early 18th century. The physics sense was coined by Justin Khoury and Amanda Weltman in 2003 in a paper in Physical Review Letters.