Noun: Fata Morgana
| Singular | Fata Morgana |
| Plural | Fata Morganas |
Sample Sentences
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A mirage, or fata morgana, was lately witnessed at Stralsund, in Pomerania. [1846, editorial staff, “A City in the Air”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 101:]
Nouns inflected like Fata Morgana
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fata Morgana (“Morgan le Fay”), from fata (“fairy”) + Morgana (“Morgan”). See: Italian Nouns '
fata Morgana'.