camouflage – English noun declension

English noun forms of camouflage

Noun: camouflage
Singularcamouflage
Pluralcamouflages

Sample Sentences

  • Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background. [2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. French camoufler
3. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
4. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
6. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
7. Proto-Italic *-ātos
8. Latin -ātus
9. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
10. Proto-Italic *-ikos
11. Latin -icus
12. Latin -āticus
13. Latin -āticum
14. Old French -age
15. Middle French -age
16. French -age
17. French camouflageubor.
18. English camouflage
19. Unadapted borrowing from French camouflage, from camoufler (“to veil, disguise”), alteration (due to camouflet (“smoke blown in one's face”)) of Italian camuffare (“to muffle the head”), from ca- (from Italian capo (“head”)) + muffare (“to muffle”), from Medieval Latin muffula, muffla (“muff”). This Medieval Latin, from which there is also English muffle, is either derived from a Frankish *molfell (“soft garment made of hide”) from *mol (“softened, forworn”) (akin to Old High German molawēn (“to soften”), Middle High German molwic (“soft”)) + *fell (“hide, skin”), from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”), or, an alternate etymology traces it to a Frankish *muffël (“a muff, wrap, envelope”) composed of *mauwa (“sleeve, wrap”) from Proto-Germanic *mawwō (“sleeve”) + *fell (“skin, hide”) from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, film, fleece”). See: Italian Nouns 'camuffare', Italian Nouns 'capo', English Nouns 'muffle'.