zygote
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Ancient Greek ζῠγωτός (zŭgōtós, “yoked”) + English -ote (suffix meaning ‘having [the thing to which it is attached]’). Ζῠγωτός (Zŭgōtós) is derived from ζῠγόω (zŭgóō, “to join or yoke together”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives of possibility);[1] and ζῠγόω (zŭgóō) from ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke for joining animals; anything which joins two things together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming causative or factitive verbs). By surface analysis, zygo- + -ote.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈzaɪɡəʊt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈzaɪˌɡoʊt/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: zyg‧ote
Noun
editzygote (plural zygotes)
- (cytology, also attributive) A eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes (“reproductive cells”) during a fertilization process. [from late 19th c.]
- Hyponyms: homozygote, heterozygote, merozygote, monozygote, parthenote, planozygote
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References
edit- ^ “zygote, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “zygote, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
editFrench
editEtymology
editBorrowed from German Zygote, a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ζῠγωτός (zŭgōtós, “yoked”), from ζῠγόω (zŭgóō, “to join or yoke together”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives of possibility). Ζῠγόω (Zŭgóō) is derived from ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke for joining animals; anything which joins two things together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming causative or factitive verbs).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editzygote m (plural zygotes)
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editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “zygote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yewg-
- English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek
- English learned borrowings from Ancient Greek
- English terms derived from Ancient Greek
- English terms suffixed with -ote
- English terms prefixed with zygo-
- English 2-syllable words
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- French terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- French terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *yewg-
- French terms borrowed from German
- French terms derived from German
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
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