embryo
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English
Alternative forms
- (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio , embryo (singular forms); embryones , embrio’s , embrioes , embryos (plural forms)
- (after the stem (embryōn-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun , embrion , embryon (singular forms); embrions , embryons (plural forms)
- (after the Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon)) embryon (singular form); embryons , embrya (plural forms)
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew עֻבָּר (“fetus, embryo”) ('ʊbar).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
- Hyphenation: em‧bryo
Noun
embryo (plural embryos or embryones)
- In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
- An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
- In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
- In humans, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy
- (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
- (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
- 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, , London: B Motte , published 1738, →OCLC, page lxxviii:
- […] while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A Millar, , →OCLC:
- it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
- 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage. , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., , published April 1861, →OCLC:
- Lord Lufton, with his barony and twenty thousand a year, might be accepted as just good enough; but failing him there was an embryo marquis, whose fortune would be more than ten times as great, all ready to accept his child!
Derived terms
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Translations
fertilized egg before developing into a fetus
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an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis
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in viviparous animals: the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
in humans: the cell growth up to the end of the seventh week in the mother's body
botany: rudimentary plant contained in the seed
the beginning; the first stage of anything
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Further reading
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
embryo n
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
Further reading
- embryo in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- embryo in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Pronunciation
Noun
embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Indonesian: embrio
Finnish
Etymology
Internationalism (see English embryo), ultimately from Medieval Latin embryō.
Pronunciation
Noun
embryo (rare)
Declension
| Inflection of embryo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | embryo | embryot | ||
| genitive | embryon | embryoiden embryoitten | ||
| partitive | embryota | embryoita | ||
| illative | embryoon | embryoihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | embryo | embryot | ||
| accusative | nom. | embryo | embryot | |
| gen. | embryon | |||
| genitive | embryon | embryoiden embryoitten | ||
| partitive | embryota | embryoita | ||
| inessive | embryossa | embryoissa | ||
| elative | embryosta | embryoista | ||
| illative | embryoon | embryoihin | ||
| adessive | embryolla | embryoilla | ||
| ablative | embryolta | embryoilta | ||
| allative | embryolle | embryoille | ||
| essive | embryona | embryoina | ||
| translative | embryoksi | embryoiksi | ||
| abessive | embryotta | embryoitta | ||
| instructive | — | embryoin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “embryo”, 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
Interlingua
Noun
embryo (plural embryos)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
Related terms
References
- “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).
Noun
embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
Related terms
References
- “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Noun
embryo n
- embryo; an unborn baby that is less developed than a fetus.
- embryo; an organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
Declension
| Declension of embryo | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | embryo | embryot | embryon | embryona |
| Genitive | embryos | embryots | embryons | embryonas |