ameba

• enPR: ə-mēʹbə, IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːbə

ameba (plural amebas or amebae)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of amoeba

• Amoeba is the more widespread spelling of this word in the US.

• Ambae, abeam

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

Amebat

Wikipedia ^fi

• ameeba

Learned borrowing from New Latin amēba, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑme(ː)bɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmebɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ame‧ba

ameba

1. (biology) amoeba

• “ameba”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

ameba

Wikipedia ^id

From Dutch amoebe, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: amé‧ba

améba (first-person possessive amebaku, second-person possessive amebamu, third-person possessive amebanya)

1. amoeba, ameba: a member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.

• amuba

• “ameba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

ameba

Wikipedia ^it

From Latin amoeba (“change, alternation, transformation”), from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛ.ba/
• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Hyphenation: a‧mè‧ba

ameba f (plural amebe)

1. (biology) amoeba
2. (colloquial, derogatory) an unintelligent or spineless person

• amebico

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

Ameby

Wikipedia ^pl

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Amöbe or English amoeba, ultimately from New Latin amoeba, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”).^[1] First attested in the 19th century.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛ.ba/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ba

ameba f

1. amoeba (member of the genus Amoeba)

   Synonym: pełzak

   maleńka ameba ― tiny amoeba

   zakażenie amebą ― infected by an amoeba

2. (more generally) amoeba, amoeboid (unicellular organism which has the ability to alter its shape)

   Synonym: pełzak

3. (colloquial, derogatory) amoeba (unintelligent or spineless person)

   kosmopolityczna ameba ― cosmopolitan amoeba

   ameba społeczna ― social amoeba

• ameba in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• ameba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• Rhymes: -ɛbɐ

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. (biology) amoeba (a genus of unicellular protozoa)

• “ameba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

• IPA^(key): /aměːba/

améba f (Cyrillic spelling аме́ба)

1. amoeba

• amibo
• amiba

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ).

• IPA^(key): /aˈmeba/

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ba

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. amoeba

• “ameba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Borrowed from English amoeba.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aˈmɛba/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /aˈmeːba/, /aˈmɛba/

ameba m (plural amebas or amebâu)

1. amoeba