Other forms: kaleidoscopes
A kaleidoscope is a tube of shifting coloured patterns, or a constant change. A kaleidoscope of colour.
Two mirrors and a few beads make the pattern, which is why no two turns are the same. The word was coined by its inventor in 1817 from Greek for beautiful form.
1nounkaleidoscopeA tube of shifting coloured patterns, or a constant change.
“The market was a kaleidoscope of colour by seven in the morning.”
kaleidoscope is a device.
Coined by David Brewster in 1817 from Greek kalos, beautiful, eidos, form, and -scope.
Proto-Indo-European
*weyd-
Ancient Greek
καλός — beautiful, lovely
English, today
kaleidoscope
Built from
From καλός + εἶδος + -scope. The noun is derived from Ancient Greek καλός (“beautiful, lovely”) + εἶδος (“form, image, shape”) + -scope, coined by David Brewster (1781–1868) in his 1817 patent for the invention: see the quotation. The verb is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA