See also: Axon, axón, and àxon

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From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).

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axon (plural axons)

  1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

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axon m inan

  1. axon

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  • axon in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu

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Etymology edit

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɒkson]
  • Hyphenation: axon
  • Rhymes: -on

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axon (plural axonok)

  1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)
    Synonym: tengelyfonál

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative axon axonok
accusative axont axonokat
dative axonnak axonoknak
instrumental axonnal axonokkal
causal-final axonért axonokért
translative axonná axonokká
terminative axonig axonokig
essive-formal axonként axonokként
essive-modal
inessive axonban axonokban
superessive axonon axonokon
adessive axonnál axonoknál
illative axonba axonokba
sublative axonra axonokra
allative axonhoz axonokhoz
elative axonból axonokból
delative axonról axonokról
ablative axontól axonoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
axoné axonoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
axonéi axonokéi
Possessive forms of axon
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. axonom axonjaim
2nd person sing. axonod axonjaid
3rd person sing. axonja axonjai
1st person plural axonunk axonjaink
2nd person plural axonotok axonjaitok
3rd person plural axonjuk axonjaik

References edit

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).

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axōn m (genitive axonis); third declension

  1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
  2. the axis of a ballista

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Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative axōn axonēs
Genitive axonis axonum
Dative axonī axonibus
Accusative axonem axonēs
Ablative axone axonibus
Vocative axōn axonēs

References edit

  • axon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • axon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

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Borrowed from French axone.

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axon m (plural axoni)

  1. axon

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