Noun: fata morgana
| Singular | fata morgana |
| Plural | fata morganas |
Sample Sentences
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On the other side of the electric fence, the fata morgana shimmers. [2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate, published 2010, page 290:]
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'.