cyte

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See also: cyté and -cyte

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kútos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.

Pronunciation

Noun

cyte (plural cytes)

  1. (biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)
    • 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:
      The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.

Etymology 2

Noun

cyte (plural cytes)

  1. Obsolete form of city.

Middle English

Noun

cyte

  1. Alternative form of cite

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

For earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).

Related to cote, though the exact details are unclear.

Pronunciation

Noun

ċȳte f

  1. (rare) hut, cabin

Declension

Declension of cyte (weak)
Case Singular Plural
nominative ċȳte ċȳtan
accusative ċȳtan ċȳtan
genitive ċȳtan ċȳtena
dative ċȳtan ċȳtum

Descendants

  • Middle English: chete

References

  1. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cete”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  2. ^ M. T. Löfvenberg (1944) “An Etymological Note”, in Studia Neophilologica‎, volume 17, number 2, →DOI, pages 259-265
  3. ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cyte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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