different between vesicle vs nucleus

English

Etymology

From Middle French vesicule, from Latin v?s?cula.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?s?k?l/, /?vi?s?k?l/
• Hyphenation: ves?i?cle
• Homophone: vesical (for some pronunciations)

Noun

vesicle (plural vesicles)

1. (cytology) A membrane-bound compartment found in a cell.
2. A small bladder-like cell or cavity; a vesicula.
3. (anatomy) A small sac or cyst or vacuole, especially one containing fluid. A blister formed in or beneath the skin, containing serum. A bleb.
4. (anatomy) A pocket of embryonic tissue that is the beginning of an organ.
5. (geology) A small cavity formed in volcanic rock by entrapment of a gas bubble during solidification.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 51:

     It frequently contains holes, or vesicles, especially nearer the surface of a flow where gas has escaped.

Derived terms

Related terms

• vesica
• vesication
• vesicula
• vesicular
• vesiculation

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nucleus (“kernel, core”), a diminutive of nux (“nut”). The earliest uses refer to the head of a comet and the kernel of a seed, both recorded in Lexicon Technicum in 1704. The sense in atomic physics was coined by English scientist Michael Faraday in 1844 in a theoretical meaning.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nju?.kli.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nu?kli.?s/

Noun

nucleus (plural nuclei or nucleuses)

1. The core, central part of something, around which other elements are assembled.
2. An initial part or version that will receive additions.

   This collection will form the nucleus of a new library.

3. (chemistry, physics) The massive, positively charged central part of an atom, made up of protons and neutrons.
4. (cytology) A large membrane-enclosed organelle found in eukaryotic cells which contains genetic material.
5. (neuroanatomy) A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.
6. (phonetics, phonology) The central part of a syllable, most commonly a vowel.

   Coordinate terms: onset, coda

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• nucules, unclues

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?cleus (“kernel, core”), diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nykle?j?s/

Noun

nucleus m (plural nucleussen or nuclei, diminutive nucleusje n)

1. nucleus, core

Synonyms

• kern

Related terms

• nucleair
• nucleïne
• nucleon

Latin

Alternative forms

• nuculeus

Etymology

A diminutive of nux (“nut”).

Pronunciation

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?n?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

n?cleus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nu?.kle.us/, [?nu?k??e?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nu.kle.us/, [?nu?kl?us]

Noun

n??cleus m (genitive n??cle?); second declension

1. (literally) (small) nut
2. kernel
3. (figuratively) core
4. nucleus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• n??cle?ris (New Latin)
• n??cle?tus (New Latin)
• n??cle?

Descendants

References

• n??cl?us (n?c?l?us) in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• n?cl?us in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,043/1
• “nucleus” on page 1,199 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)