different between samite vs somite

English

Etymology

From Old French samit, from Medieval Latin samitum, examitum, from Byzantine Greek ???????? (hexámiton), from ?? (héx, “six”) + ????? (mítos, “thread”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæma?t/

Noun

samite (countable and uncountable, plural samites)

1. A material of rich silk, sometimes with gold threads, especially prized during the Middle Ages.
   • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

     And in the center of that lake there hath for some time been seen the appearance as of a women's arm--exceedingly beautiful and clad in white samite, and the hand of this arm holdeth a sword of such exceeding excellence and beauty that no eye hath ever beheld like.

Anagrams

• Amesti, Maties, aimest, maiest, maties, misate, miseat, semita, tamise

English

Etymology

soma +? -ite

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?so?ma?t/

Noun

somite (plural somites)

1. (embryology) One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae.
2. (anatomy) A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed.

Derived terms

• somitic
• somitogenesis
• somitomere

Anagrams

• Tomeis, mitose, osmite

French

Noun

somite m (plural somites)

1. (biology, entomology) somite

Further reading

• “somite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

somite m (plural somiti)

1. (biology, entomology) somite