embryo
English
Alternative forms
- (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
- (after the stem (embryōn-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
- (after the Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (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[enjamin] 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[ndrew] 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
- coconut embryo
- dysembryoma
- eleutheroembryo
- embryectomy
- embryocardia
- embryocidal
- embryogenesis
- embryogenetic
- embryogenic
- embryogony
- embryography
- embryoid
- embryokine
- embryoless
- embryolike
- embryology
- embryoma
- embryonary
- embryonic
- embryonical
- embryoniferous
- embryony
- embryopathic
- embryopathy
- embryophytic
- embryoplastic
- embryo sac
- embryoscope
- embryoscopy
- embryostasis
- embryostatic
- embryotomy
- embryotoxic
- embryotoxicity
- embryo transfer
- embryotrophic
- embryotropic
- embryous
- hybrid embryo
- in embryo
- interembryo
- monembryony
- polyembryo
- postembryo
- pre-embryo
- proembryo
- pseudembryo
- typembryo
- xenoembryo
Related terms
Translations
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Further reading
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
embryo n
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
- “embryo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “embryo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 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) | |||
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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][1] (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)
Related terms
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 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | embryo | embryot | embryon | embryona |
Genitive | embryos | embryots | embryons | embryonas |
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