Alternative forms
edit
Etymology
edit
From Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “sperm”) + ζῷον (zôion, “living thing”).
Pronunciation
edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌspɜːmətə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/
| Audio (Southern England) | | (file) |
spermatozoon (plural spermatozoa)
- (cytology) A reproductive cell or gamete of a male, carried in semen, that fertilizes an ovum to produce a zygote.
2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 339:But let us suppose [...] that one hardy or lucky spermatozoon has reached the waiting egg.
Synonyms
edit
Hypernyms
edit
Coordinate terms
edit
Derived terms
edit
Translations
edit
reproductive cell of the male
- Armenian: սպերմատոզոիդ (hy) (spermatozoid), սերմնաբջիջ (hy) (sermnabǰiǰ)
- Azerbaijani: spermatozoid
- Bulgarian: сперматозоид m (spermatozoid)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 精子 (zh) (jīngzǐ)
- Danish: sædcelle (da) c, spermatozo (da) c
- Esperanto: spermatozoo
- Finnish: siittiö (fi)
- French: spermatozoïde (fr) m
- German: Spermium (de) n, Samenzelle (de)
- Greek: σπερματοζωάριο (el) n (spermatozoário)
- Hindi: शुक्राणु m (śukrāṇu)
- Hungarian: hímivarsejt (hu), ondósejt (hu), spermium (hu)
- Icelandic: sæðisfruma f, sáð n, sáðfruma f
- Irish: speirmiteasón m
- Italian: spermatozoo (it) m
- Japanese: 精子 (ja) (せいし, seishi)
- Korean: 정자(精子) (ko) (jeongja)
- Lithuanian: spermatozoidas m
- Macedonian: сперматозои́д m (spermatozoíd)
- Maori: tao tātea
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spermie m, sædcelle m or f
- Nynorsk: spermie m or n, sædcelle f
- Persian: اسپرماتوزئید (espermâtozo'id)
- Polish: plemnik (pl) m, spermatozoid (pl) m
- Portuguese: espermatozoide (pt) m
- Romanian: spermatozoid (ro) m
- Russian: сперматозо́ид (ru) m (spermatozóid)
- Scottish Gaelic: cealla-sìl f
- Spanish: espermatozoide (es) m
- Swedish: spermie (sv) c, sädescell (sv) c, spermatozo c
- Vietnamese: tinh trùng (vi)
|
Esperanto
edit
