chameleon

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from + ; ultimately a calque from. The spelling was re-latinized in the early 18th century. The physics sense was and  in a paper in .

Noun

 * 1) A small to mid-size reptile, of the family, and one of the best known lizard families able to change color and project its long tongue.
 * 2)  A person with inconstant behavior; one able to quickly adjust to new circumstances.
 * 3)  A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.
 * 1)  A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.
 * 1)  A hypothetical scalar particle with a non-linear self-interaction, giving it an effective mass that depends on its environment: the presence of other fields.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Akkadian: 𒌨𒈤𒊭𒆠
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: እስስት
 * Arabic: حِرْبَاء
 * Hijazi Arabic: حرباية
 * Moroccan Arabic: تاتة, بوة
 * Aragonese: camalión
 * Aramaic: זָקִיתָא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: কোকলোঙা
 * Asturian: camaleón
 * Awadhi: गिरगिट
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: kameleoi
 * Belarusian: хамелео́н
 * Bemba: lufwíáññembâ
 * Bengali: ,
 * Breton: gwerlas
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴽⴰⵛⵛⴰ, ⵜⴰⵜⴰ, ⵜⴰⵢⵢⵓ
 * Chamicuro: tsenemo
 * Cherokee: ᎤᎵᏑᏫᏒ ᎠᏓᏁᏟᏴᏍᎩ ᏘᏲᎭᎵ, ᎧᎻᎵᎣᏂ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: kameeleon
 * Faroese: kamelón
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქამელეონი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: χαμαιλέων
 * Gujarati: કાચંડો
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: kameljón, kamelljón
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Inuktitut: ᑲᒦᓕᐊᓂ (kamiiliani)
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:, ,
 * Kazakh: хамелеон
 * Kikuyu: kĩĩmbu, mũriyũ
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latvian: hameleons
 * Lithuanian: chameleonas
 * Macedonian: камелеон
 * Malagasy:, , tarondro
 * Malay: sesumpah, sumpah-sumpah, kameleon
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: kamaleont
 * Manx: kameelyan
 * Maori: kamiriona
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian: хамелеон
 * Nahuatl: tepaxin
 * Navajo: naʼashǫ́ʼii łahgo aníʼdoolníiłii
 * Northern Sotho: leôbu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: kameleon
 * Occitan:
 * Odia: ଏଣ୍ଡୁଅ
 * Pali: kakaṇṭaka
 * Mon: ကကဏ္ဍက
 * Persian:, خربا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਗਿਰਗਿਟ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: камелеон
 * Roman:
 * Shona: rwavhi
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese: londok
 * Swahili:, lumbwi,
 * Swazi: lú-nwabú
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik: офтобгардон
 * Tamil:
 * Tashelhit: ⴽⴰⵛⵛⴰ, ⵜⴰⵛⴰⵛⵜⵓⵅⵜ
 * Tatar: хамелеон
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ternate: bakebake
 * Thai: คาเมเลี่ยน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: хамелео́н
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: tắc kè hoa, tắc kè bông
 * Walloon:
 * Wolof: kàkkatar


 * Afrikaans:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 気分屋
 * Malayalam:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:
 * Tatar: монафикъ, икейөзле, хамелеон

Adjective

 * 1) Describing something that changes color.
 * The wall was covered with a chameleon paint.