axon

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See also: Axon, axón, and àxon

English

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).

Pronunciation

Noun

axon (plural axons)

  1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

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Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

axon m inan

  1. axon

Declension

Further reading

  • axon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Hungarian

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Etymology

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

axon (plural axonok)

  1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)
    Synonym: tengelyfonál

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative axon axonok
accusative axont axonokat
dative axonnak axonoknak
instrumental axonnal axonokkal
causal-final axonért axonokért
translative axonná axonokká
terminative axonig axonokig
essive-formal axonként axonokként
essive-modal
inessive axonban axonokban
superessive axonon axonokon
adessive axonnál axonoknál
illative axonba axonokba
sublative axonra axonokra
allative axonhoz axonokhoz
elative axonból axonokból
delative axonról axonokról
ablative axontól axonoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
axoné axonoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
axonéi axonokéi
Possessive forms of axon
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. axonom axonjaim
2nd person sing. axonod axonjaid
3rd person sing. axonja axonjai
1st person plural axonunk axonjaink
2nd person plural axonotok axonjaitok
3rd person plural axonjuk axonjaik

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, axis).

Pronunciation

Noun

axōn m (genitive axonis); third declension

  1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
  2. the axis of a ballista

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative axōn axonēs
genitive axonis axonum
dative axonī axonibus
accusative axonem axonēs
ablative axone axonibus
vocative axōn axonēs

References

  • axon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • axon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French axone.

Noun

axon m (plural axoni)

  1. axon

Declension

singular plural
+ indefinite article + definite article + indefinite article + definite article
nominative/accusative (un) axon axonul (niște) axoni axonii
genitive/dative (unui) axon axonului (unor) axoni axonilor
vocative axonule axonilor