embryon
English edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin embryon, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “newborn animal, embryo”).
Noun edit
embryon (plural embryons)
Adjective edit
embryon (comparative more embryon, superlative most embryon)
- (now rare) Embryonic. [from 17th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- [F]our Champions fierce / Strive here for Maistrie, and to Battel bring / Thir embryon Atoms […] .
Finnish edit
Noun edit
embryon
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French embrion, from Medieval Latin embryon, embrion, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “to grow, swell”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
embryon m (plural embryons)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “embryon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Swedish edit
Noun edit
embryon