steroid

English

Etymology

sterol +‎ -oid

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪd
• IPA^(key): /ˈstɛɹɔɪd/, /ˈstɪəɹɔɪd/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

steroid (plural steroids)

1. (biochemistry, organic chemistry) A class of organic compounds having a structure of 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings; they are lipids, and occur naturally as sterols, bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, and some vitamins; many drugs are synthetic steroids.
2. (bodybuilding, sports) Any anabolic hormone used to promote muscle growth or athletic performance.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:steroid

Derived terms

• aminosteroid
• anabolic steroid
• antisteroid
• azasteroid
• corticosteroid
• cyclosteroid
• furanosteroid
• hydroxysteroid
• isosteroid
• ketosteroid
• neuroactive steroid
• neurosteroid
• nonsteroid
• norsteroid
• oxosteroid
• phytosteroid
• poststeroid
• roid
• secosteroid
• steroidal
• steroidally
• steroidlike
• steroidogenesis
• steroidogenetic
• steroidogenic
• steroidome
• steroidphobia

 

Translations

class of organic compounds

• Catalan: esteroide m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 類固醇, 类固醇 (leoi⁶ gu³ seon⁴), 甾 (zoi¹)

  Mandarin: 類固醇 (zh), 类固醇 (zh) (lèigùchún), 甾 (zh) (zāi), 甾體, 甾体 (zāitǐ)

• Czech: steroid m
• Finnish: steroidi (fi)
• French: stéroïde (fr) m
• German: Steroid (de) n
• Greek: στεροειδές (el) n (steroeidés)
• Hindi: सांद्राभ (sāndrābh)
• Hungarian: szteroid (hu)
• Icelandic: steri m
• Irish: stéaróideach m
• Italian: steroide (it) m
• Japanese: ステロイド (suteroido)
• Kazakh: стероид (steroid)
• Khmer: ស្តេរ៉ូអ៊ីត (steerouʼiit)
• Korean: 스테로이드 (seuteroideu)
• Kyrgyz: стероид (steroid)
• Persian: استروئید‎ (estero'id)
• Polish: steroid (pl) m
• Portuguese: esteroide (pt) m
• Romanian: steroid (ro) m
• Russian: стеро́ид (ru) m (steróid)
• Spanish: esteroide m
• Swedish: steroid (sv)
• Turkish: steroid
• Ukrainian: стеро́їд m (sterójid)
• Vietnamese: xteoit
• Welsh: steroid m

Anagrams

• destroi, doiters, editors, oestrid, ostreid, roisted, sortied, storied, tie rods, tierods, triodes

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Czech

Noun

steroid m

1. steroid

Further reading

• steroid in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• steroid in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• steroid in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Romanian

Etymology

From French stéroïde.

Noun

steroid m (plural steroizi)

1. steroid

Declension

Declension of steroid

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) steroid	steroidul	(niște) steroizi	steroizii
genitive/dative	(unui) steroid	steroidului	(unor) steroizi	steroizilor
vocative	steroidule		steroizilor

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Turkish

Etymology

From French stéroïde.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ste.ɾɔ.id/

Noun

steroid (definite accusative steroidi, plural steroidler)

1. steroid

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	steroid
Definite accusative	steroidi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	steroid	steroidler
Definite accusative	steroidi	steroidleri
Dative	steroide	steroidlere
Locative	steroidde	steroidlerde
Ablative	steroidden	steroidlerden
Genitive	steroidin	steroidlerin