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English

Alternative forms

• axone (dated)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Noun

axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

Hypernyms

• (nerve fibre): neuronal process, neurite, nerve fibre

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• noxa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?akson]

Noun

axon m

1. axon

Further reading

• axon in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Hungarian

Etymology

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??kson]
• Hyphenation: axon
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

axon (plural axonok)

1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)

   Synonym: tengelyfonál

Declension

References

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ak.so?n/, [?äks?o?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.son/, [??ks?n]

Noun

ax?n m (genitive axonis); third declension

1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
2. the axis of a ballista

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• axon in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• axon in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

From French axone.

Noun

axon m (plural axoni)

1. axon

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æks?n

Noun

axen

1. (Britain dialectal) plural of ash

Anagrams

• Xena, anex

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?csian, ?xian, metathetic forms of ?scian, from Proto-West Germanic *aisk?n.

Alternative forms

• axien, asken, askien, aschen, aishen, axe, axse, aske, asshe, asche, aski, eskien, eschen, easki, eski, ix, oxien, oxen, axie, axsy, asse, asskenn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?aks?n/, /?ask?n/, /?a??n/, /??-/, /?i-/, /???-/

Verb

axen

2. (intransitive, transitive, ditransitive) To ask, enquire or question:
   1. To formulate or proffer a question or query.
   2. To ask for a response (to a question or query).
   3. To request knowledge or information.
   4. To ask for a favour or reward; to supplicate.
   5. To pray for something; to supplicate a divinity.
3. (transitive) To look for something; to attempt to find something:
   1. To search for a object, place, or person.
   2. To search for recommendations or information.
4. (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) To want or require (something or someone).
5. (transitive, intransitive, ditransitive) To command or require (someone to do something).
6. (transitive) To trial or examine (something)
7. (rare, transitive, intransitive) To acquire knowledge through examination.
8. (rare, transitive) To endeavour to do (something).
9. (rare, transitive) To aim to visit a location.
10. (rare, transitive) To have a tendency towards a certain way or direction.

Conjugation

Related terms

• asker
• askynge

Descendants

• English: ask (dialectal ax, axe, aks)
• Scots: ask, as, ax
• Yola: ishe

References

• “asken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Adjective

axen

1. Alternative form of asshen (“ash-coloured”)

Swedish

Noun

axen

1. definite plural of ax