different between sperm vs spermine

English

Etymology

From Middle English sperme, from Latin sperma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (spérma, “seed, semen”). Compare also Old French esperme, sparme.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sp???m/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp??m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m
• Hyphenation: sperm

Noun

sperm (countable and uncountable, plural sperm or sperms)

1. (countable) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
   • 2012, Sarah Whitehouse, The Guardian, 13 Apr 2012:

     Seeing the two little moving cells – the result of her egg and Luke's sperm – was incredible, and two very long weeks later the clinic confirmed I was pregnant.

2. (uncountable, slang) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
3. (chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.

Synonyms

• (generative substance): cum (vulgar slang), semen
• (reproductive cell): spermatozoon, sperm cell
• (of fish): milt
• (figurative): seed

Hypernyms

• (reproductive cell): gamete

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sperm (third-person singular simple present sperms, present participle sperming, simple past and past participle spermed)

1. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
2. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate on or into.

Anagrams

• PMSer, perms, prems

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (spérma) (sense 1).

Noun

sperm m (definite singular spermen, uncountable)

1. sperm
2. short for spermasett (spermaceti); see spermhval.

Synonyms

• sperma
• sæd

Related terms

• sperme

Verb

sperm

1. imperative of sperme

References

• “sperm” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Turkish

Noun

sperm

1. semen (male reproductory fluid)

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (spérma, “semen”) +? -ine.

Noun

spermine (countable and uncountable, plural spermines)

1. (organic chemistry) A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism

Derived terms

• thermospermine

Translations

Anagrams

• premines

Italian

Noun

spermine f

1. plural of spermina