animalculist

English

Etymology

From animalcule +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /anɪˈmalkjʊlɪst/

Noun

animalculist (plural animalculists)

1. (historical) A believer in the theory that the embryo exists preformed within the spermatozoon; a proponent of animalculism. [from 18th c.]
2. (obsolete) Someone who studies animalcules. [19th c.]
   • 1882, “Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 22:

     All at once a botanist, already celebrated, proclaimed that he had seen the embryo forming in the grain of pollen and penetrating the ovule with the pollenical tube. This unexpected animalculist was Schleiden.

Translations

believer in the theory of animalculism

• Portuguese: animalculista m or f

someone who studies animalcules

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• French: ^{(please verify)} animalculiste (fr)

Adjective

animalculist (comparative more animalculist, superlative most animalculist)

1. (historical) Pertaining to animalculism. [from 19th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 217:

     Countering ‘ovism’, the rival ‘animalculist’ school regarded spermatozoa, discovered in semen by Leeuwenhoek, as the true source of conception.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animalculiste.

Noun

animalculist m (plural animalculiști)

1. animalculist

Declension

Declension of animalculist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) animalculist	animalculistul	(niște) animalculiști	animalculiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) animalculist	animalculistului	(unor) animalculiști	animalculiștilor
vocative	animalculistule		animalculiștilor