different between germed vs germen

English

Verb

germed

1. simple past tense and past participle of germ

Anagrams

• degerm, merged

English

Etymology

From Latin germen (“germ, seed”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d???.m?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d??.m?n/
• Homophone: German
• Rhymes: -??(?)m?n

Noun

germen (plural germens or germina)

1. (biology) The basic form of an organism; the seed or germ.

Anagrams

• Mergen

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *genmen, from Proto-Indo-European *?énh?mn? (“offspring”, “seed”), from the root *?enh?- (“to beget”, “to give birth”). Equivalent to gign? (“I beget”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix). Confer with genimen.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??er.men/, [???rm?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??er.men/, [?d???rm?n]

Noun

germen n (genitive germinis); third declension

1. shoot, sprout, bud
2. germ, seed, origin
3. embryo, fetus

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• germ?nus
• germinasc?
• germin?

Related terms

• germin?ti?
• germin?tus

Descendants

References

• germen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• germen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• germen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Alternative forms

• germene

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin germen.

Noun

germen m (plural germeni)

1. embryo

   Synonym: embrion

2. (biology) seed, germ (small mass of cells from which an organism grows)
3. germ

   Synonym: microb

4. principle, element, component

   Synonyms: principiu, element

Declension

Related terms

• germina
• germinare
• germinat
• germinabil
• germinabilitate

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin germen (“germ, seed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xe?men/, [?xe?.m?n]

Noun

germen m (plural gérmenes)

1. germen
2. microbe, microorganism
3. (figuratively) seed, origin

Further reading

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