different between chitin vs chiton

English

Etymology

From French chitine, from Latin chit?n (“mollusk”), from Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n). See also chiton.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k??t?n, IPA^(key): /?ka?t?n/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n

Noun

chitin (countable and uncountable, plural chitins)

1. (biochemistry) A complex polysaccharide, a polymer of N-acetylglucosamine, found in the exoskeletons of arthropods and in the cell walls of fungi; thought to be responsible for some forms of asthma in humans.
   • 1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body, Macmillan, p. 299

     Chitin usually occurs throughout Invertebrates in the form of an investment to the outermost cellular layer or ectoderm.

   • 2004, New Scientist, 11 Sep 2004, p.19

     The robot’s energy source is the sugar in the polysaccharide called chitin that makes up a fly’s exoskeleton.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• chitin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chitin”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• itchin'

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka?tn?/, /?ka?t?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?tn?/, /?ka?t?n/
• Rhymes: -a?t?n

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n, “tunic”), from a Central Semitic *kittan, from the Akkadian ???????? (kitû, literally “flax, linen”), from Sumerian ???????? (kitû [GIŠ.GADA])

Noun

chiton (plural chitons or chitones)

1. (historical) A loose woolen tunic worn by men and women in Ancient Greece.
   • 1998, Colette Susan Czapski, NM238: A Hellenistic Statue and Its Archaistic Support, Kim J. Hartswick, Mary Carol Sturgeon (editors), Stephanos: Studies in Honor of Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, page 53,

     She wears a diaphanous himation that covers her torso, over a floor-length chiton of heavier fabric.

Coordinate terms

Translations

See also

• Chiton (costume) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• American Heritage Dictionary (fourth edition, 2000) entry on the chiton

Etymology 2

From New Latin chiton. See above.

Noun

chiton (plural chitons)

1. Any of various rock-clinging marine molluscs of the class Polyplacophora, including the genus Chiton.

Synonyms

• (mollusc): coat-of-mail shell, loricate, polyplacophoran, polyplacophore, sea cradle

Translations

See also

• chiton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ONCHIT

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xi.t?n/
• Hyphenation: chi?ton

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n).

Noun

chiton m (plural chitons)

1. chiton (Greek tunic)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khit?n).

Noun

chiton m (plural chitons or chitonen)

1. chiton (mollusc of the class Polyplacophora)

   Synonym: keverslak