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organism
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon, “tool, instrument”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (“work”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ôr?g?n?z?m
- (UK) IPA(key): /???.??n.?.z?m/
- (US) IPA(key): /???.??n.?.z?m/
Noun
organism (plural organisms)
- (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
- (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:organism
Derived terms
- free-living organism
- organismal
- organismic
Translations
Anagrams
- moringas, roamings, sinogram
Romanian
Etymology
From French organisme
Noun
organism n (plural organisme)
- organism
Declension
organism From the web:
- what organisms perform cellular respiration
- what organisms perform photosynthesis
- what organisms are prokaryotes
- what organisms are producers
- what organisms reproduce asexually
- what organisms use cellular respiration
- what organism causes legionnaires disease
- what organisms have ribosomes
germen
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)
- (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
- shoot, sprout, bud
- germ, seed, origin
- 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)
- embryo
- Synonym: embrion
- (biology) seed, germ (small mass of cells from which an organism grows)
- germ
- Synonym: microb
- 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)
- germen
- microbe, microorganism
- (figuratively) seed, origin
Further reading
- “germen” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
germen From the web:
- what german
- what germanic tribes invaded rome
- what german shepherds eat
- what germanic tribes invaded england
- what german state is frankfurt in
- what german state is berlin in
- what german sounds like
- what german company is working with pfizer
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