Coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiotic in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year.
meiotic (not comparable)
Borrowed from French méiotique.
meiotic m or n (feminine singular meiotică, masculine plural meiotici, feminine and neuter plural meiotice)
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | meiotic | meiotică | meiotici | meiotice | ||
definite | meioticul | meiotica | meioticii | meioticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | meiotic | meiotice | meiotici | meiotice | ||
definite | meioticului | meioticei | meioticilor | meioticelor |