† camelionn.

Forms: Also Middle English camalyon.

Etymology: As a word apparently the same as chameleon n., but in the 14th cent. taken as made up of camel + lion, and identified with camelo-pard.

Obsolete.

A camelopard or giraffe. [Wyclif appears to have had before him a Latin text reading cameleopardalum; this he mistook for two words, rendering cameleo ‘camelion’ (with a description identifying it with the giraffe), and pardalum ‘pardalun, that is a litil pard’. But some manuscripts correct this by omitting the latter, thus taking ‘camelion’ as the translation of the whole camelopardalum: this was followed by Coverdale.]

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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xiv. 5 Phigarg, origen, camelion [a1425 camelioun], that is a beest lijk a camele in the heed, in the bodi to a paard, and in the nek to an horse, in the feet to a bugle; and pardelun, that is, a litil pard. [L. tragelaphum, pygargum, orygem, camelopardalum; Douay the pygargue, the wild beefe, the cameloparde; 1611 the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.]

1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 159 Camelion is a flekked best in colour liche to a lupard.

c1400 Sowdone 1008 Wilde beestes bloode, Of Tigre, Antilope, and of Camalyon.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xiv. 5 Vnicorne, Origen and Camelion.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	camelion
释义	† camelionn. Forms: Also Middle English camalyon. Etymology: As a word apparently the same as chameleon n., but in the 14th cent. taken as made up of camel + lion, and identified with camelo-pard. Obsolete. A camelopard or giraffe. [Wyclif appears to have had before him a Latin text reading cameleopardalum; this he mistook for two words, rendering cameleo ‘camelion’ (with a description identifying it with the giraffe), and pardalum ‘pardalun, that is a litil pard’. But some manuscripts correct this by omitting the latter, thus taking ‘camelion’ as the translation of the whole camelopardalum: this was followed by Coverdale.] ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Giraffidae > [noun] > Giraffa camelopardalis (giraffe) camelion1382 cameloparda1398 gerfauntc1400 orafle?a1425 giraffe1594 kameel1839 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. xiv. 5 Phigarg, origen, camelion [a1425 camelioun], that is a beest lijk a camele in the heed, in the bodi to a paard, and in the nek to an horse, in the feet to a bugle; and pardelun, that is, a litil pard. [L. tragelaphum, pygargum, orygem, camelopardalum; Douay the pygargue, the wild beefe, the cameloparde; 1611 the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.] 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (1865) I. 159 Camelion is a flekked best in colour liche to a lupard. c1400 Sowdone 1008 Wilde beestes bloode, Of Tigre, Antilope, and of Camalyon. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Deut. xiv. 5 Vnicorne, Origen and Camelion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1382
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