embryo
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
- (after the stem (embryōn-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
- (after the Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (plural forms)
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew עֻבָּר (“fetus, embryo”) ('ʊbar).
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
- Hyphenation: em‧bryo
NounEdit
embryo (plural embryos or embryones)
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “(please specify the page)”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method Now Used at Court and in the Best Companies of England. […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte, and C. Bathurst, […], published 1738, OCLC 181801198:
- The company little suspected what a noble work I had then in embryo.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 419:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo [...]
- 1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage
- Lord Lufton, with his barony and twenty thousand a year, might be accepted as just good enough; but failing him there was an embryo marquis, whose fortune would be more than ten times as great, all ready to accept his child!
Derived termsEdit
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TranslationsEdit
fertilized egg before developing into a fetus
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an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis
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in viviparous animals: the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
in humans: the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
botany: rudimentary plant contained in the seed
the beginning; the first stage of anything
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Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CzechEdit
NounEdit
embryo n
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Further readingEdit
- embryo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- embryo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Indonesian: embrio
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Internationalism (see English embryo), ultimately from Medieval Latin embryō.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
embryo
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of embryo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | embryo | embryot | |
| genitive | embryon | embryoiden embryoitten | |
| partitive | embryota | embryoita | |
| illative | embryoon | embryoihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | embryo | embryot | |
| accusative | nom. | embryo | embryot |
| gen. | embryon | ||
| genitive | embryon | embryoiden embryoitten | |
| partitive | embryota | embryoita | |
| inessive | embryossa | embryoissa | |
| elative | embryosta | embryoista | |
| illative | embryoon | embryoihin | |
| adessive | embryolla | embryoilla | |
| ablative | embryolta | embryoilta | |
| allative | embryolle | embryoille | |
| essive | embryona | embryoina | |
| translative | embryoksi | embryoiksi | |
| instructive | — | embryoin | |
| abessive | embryotta | embryoitta | |
| comitative | — | embryoineen | |
| Possessive forms of embryo (type valtio) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | embryoni | embryomme |
| 2nd person | embryosi | embryonne |
| 3rd person | embryonsa | |
SynonymsEdit
InterlinguaEdit
NounEdit
embryo (plural embryos)
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Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
NounEdit
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
NounEdit
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
embryo n
- embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
- embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of embryo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | embryo | embryot | embryon | embryona |
| Genitive | embryos | embryots | embryons | embryonas |