different between ameba vs amoeba

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?-m??b?, IPA^(key): /??mi?b?/
• Rhymes: -i?b?

Noun

ameba (plural amebas or amebae)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of amoeba

Usage notes

• Amoeba is the more widespread spelling of this word in the US.

Anagrams

• Ambae, abeam

Finnish

(index am)

Alternative forms

• ameeba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??me(?)b?/, [??me?(?)b?]
• Rhymes: -?meb?
• Syllabification: a?me?ba

Noun

ameba

1. (biology) amoeba

Declension

Italian

Etymology

From Latin amoeba (“change, alternation, transformation”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (amoib?, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

Noun

ameba f (plural amebe)

1. (biology) amoeba

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?m?.ba/

Noun

ameba f

1. amoeba (member of the genus Amoeba)

   Synonym: pe?zak

2. (more generally) amoeba, amoeboid (unicellular organism which has the ability to alter its shape)

   Synonym: pe?zak

Declension

Further reading

• ameba in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• ameba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. (biology) amoeba (a genus of unicellular protozoa)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /am??ba/

Noun

améba f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. amoeba

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

• amibo

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (amoib?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?meba/, [a?me.??a]
• Rhymes: -eba

Noun

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. amoeba

Derived terms

• amebiano

Further reading

• “ameba” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English amoeba.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /a?m?ba/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /a?me?ba/, /a?m?ba/

Noun

ameba m (plural amebas or amebâu)

1. amoeba

Mutation

English

Alternative forms

• ameba, amœba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (amoib?, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??mi?b?/

Noun

amoeba (plural amoebae or amoebas)

1. (biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
2. (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
3. (slang) An asexual.

Related terms

• amoebiasis
• amoebic dysentery

Translations

Further reading

• amoeba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?moe?.ba/, [ä?moe?bä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?me.ba/, [??m??b?]

Noun

amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension

1. amoeba

Declension

First-declension noun.