caleidoscoop – Dutch noun declension

Noun: caleidoscoop
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Sg.	caleidoscoop
Pl.	caleidoscopen

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like caleidoscoop

kringloop, manchetknoop, siroop, bolhoop, filantroop, stormloop, puinhoop, elektronenmicroscoop, verkeersknoop, biotoop, leegloop, periscoop, vuurdoop, isotoop, huurkoop, caleidoscoop, aardhoop, executieverkoop, duizendknoop, autobioscoop, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from English kaleidoscope, from Ancient Greek καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) + εἶδος (eîdos, “shape”) (compare -oid) + -scope. Coined 1817, by David Brewster, its inventor.
2. Figurative sense of “constantly changing pattern” attested 1819 by Lord Byron, who had received a kaleidoscope from his publisher. See: English Nouns 'kaleidoscope'.

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