zygote

See also: Zygote

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζυγωτός (zugōtós, “yoked”), past participle of ζυγόω (zugóō, “to yoke”), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”). Cognate with yoke and jugular.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪɡəʊt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪɡoʊt/

Noun

zygote (plural zygotes)

1. A fertilized egg cell.

   Hyponyms: homozygote, heterozygote

Derived terms

• prezygote
• zygotic
• zygotically

 

Related terms

• dizygotic
• monozygotic
• zygosity

 

Descendants

• → Irish: siogót
• → Malay: zigot

Translations

fertilized egg cell

• Arabic: زىجوت (zijut)
• Catalan: zigot m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 受精卵 (zh) (shòujīngluǎn), 合子 (zh) (hézǐ)

• Czech: zygota f
• Danish: zygote c
• Estonian: sügoot
• Finnish: tsygootti (fi), hedelmöitynyt munasolu
• French: zygote (fr) m
• Galician: cigoto (gl) m
• German: Zygote (de) f
• Greek: ζυγωτό (el) n (zygotó)
• Hebrew: זִיגוֹטָה (he) f (zigóta)
• Hindi: युग्मनज m (yugmanaj)
• Hungarian: zigóta (hu)
• Icelandic: okfruma f
• Ido: zigoto (io)
• Italian: zigote (it) m
• Japanese: 接合子 (せつごうし, setsugōshi)
• Kashubian: zygòta f
• Kazakh: ұрықтанған жасуша (ūryqtanğan jasuşa)
• Korean: 접합자(接合子) (ko) (jeophapja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: zîgot f

• Malay:

  Jawi: زيݢوت

  Rumi: zigot

• Maori: pūtau hua
• Polish: zygota (pl) f
• Portuguese: zigoto (pt) m
• Russian: зиго́та (ru) f (zigóta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зиго̀та f

  Roman: zigòta (sh) f

• Spanish: cigoto (es) m, zigoto (es) m
• Swedish: zygot (sv) c
• Tagalog: punlog
• Telugu: సంయుక్తబీజము (saṁyuktabījamu)
• Turkish: zigot (tr)
• Vietnamese: hợp tử (合子)

Further reading

• zygote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zi.ɡɔt/

• Audio

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Noun

zygote m (plural zygotes)

1. zygote

Derived terms

• zygotique

Descendants

• → Romanian: zigot
• → Turkish: zigot

Further reading

• “zygote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.