Embryo
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (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)
Etymology[edit]
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).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
- Hyphenation: em‧bryo
Noun[edit]
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 of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxxviii:
- […] while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
- 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1861, →OCLC:
- 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 terms[edit]
- coconut embryo
- dysembryoma
- eleutheroembryo
- embryectomy
- embryocardia
- embryocidal
- embryogenesis
- embryogenetic
- embryogenic
- embryogony
- embryography
- embryoid
- embryokine
- embryoless
- embryolike
- embryology
- embryoma
- embryonary
- embryonic
- embryonical
- embryoniferous
- embryony
- embryopathic
- embryopathy
- embryophytic
- embryoplastic
- embryo sac
- embryoscope
- embryoscopy
- embryostasis
- embryostatic
- embryotomy
- embryotoxic
- embryotoxicity
- embryo transfer
- embryotrophic
- embryotropic
- embryous
- hybrid embryo
- in embryo
- interembryo
- monembryony
- polyembryo
- postembryo
- pre-embryo
- proembryo
- pseudembryo
- typembryo
- xenoembryo
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Translations[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Czech[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
embryo n
Declension[edit]
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Further reading[edit]
- 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
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: embrio
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Internationalism (see English embryo), ultimately from Medieval Latin embryō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
embryo (rare)
Declension[edit]
Inflection of embryo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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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 | ||
abessive | embryotta | embryoitta | ||
instructive | — | embryoin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “embryo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Interlingua[edit]
Noun[edit]
embryo (plural embryos)
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun[edit]
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun[edit]
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish[edit]
Noun[edit]
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.
Declension[edit]
Declension of embryo | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | embryo | embryot | embryon | embryona |
Genitive | embryos | embryots | embryons | embryonas |