camouflage的词源

英文词源

camouflage: camouflage: [20] Camouflage reached the English language during World War I, when the art of concealing objects from the enemy was considerably developed. It is of French origin, a derivative of the verb camoufler ‘disguise’, which came from Italian camuffare ‘disguise, trick’.
camouflage: 1917, noun, verb, and adjective, from French camoufler, Parisian slang, "to disguise," from Italian camuffare "to disguise," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps a contraction of capo muffare "to muffle the head." Probably altered by influence of French camouflet "puff of smoke," on the notion of "blow smoke in someone's face." The British navy in World War I called it dazzle-painting.
Since the war started the POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY has published photographs of big British and French field pieces covered with shrubbery, railway trains "painted out" of the landscape, and all kinds of devices to hide the guns, trains, and the roads from the eyes of enemy aircraft.

Until recently there was no one word in any language to explain this war trick. Sometimes a whole paragraph was required to explain this military practice. Hereafter one word, a French word, will save all this needless writing and reading. Camouflage is the new word, and it means "fooling the enemy." ["Popular Science Monthly," August 1917]

发音释义：['kæməflɑːʒ] n.v.伪装；掩饰；迷彩；迷彩服；迷彩色；保护色

词源解释：camouflage←法语camoufler←意大利语camuffare（伪装），可能是capo muffare（蒙住头）的缩写，也可能在拼写上受到法语camouflet（烟雾的膨胀）的影响。

助记窍门：camouflage→came out flag→打着（假的）旗帜出来→伪装

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词源不详。可能来自短语capo muffare, 盖住头。