amoeba

See also: Amoeba, amöba, and amœba

English

An amoeba.

Alternative forms

• ameba (US)
• amœba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːbə

Noun

amoeba (plural amoebae or amoebas)

1. (biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
2. (loosely) Any eukaryote that exhibits amoeboid movement, having the ability to change its shape.

   Synonym: amoeboid

3. (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
4. (slang) An asexual.

Antonyms

• (biology) mastigote

Derived terms

• acanthamoeba
• amoebalike
• coamoeba

Related terms

• amoebiasis
• amoebic dysentery

Translations

member of a genus of unicellular protozoa

• Albanian: amebë (sq) f
• Arabic: أَمِيبَا f (ʔamībā), مُتَحَوِّلَة f (mutaḥawwila)
• Armenian: ամեոբա (hy) (ameoba)
• Azerbaijani: amyöb, ameba
• Belarusian: амёба f (amjóba)
• Bengali: অ্যামিবা (bn) (êmiba)
• Bulgarian: аме́ба (bg) f (améba)
• Burmese: အမီးဗား (my) (a.mi:ba:)
• Catalan: ameba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變形蟲 / 变形虫 (zh) (biànxíngchóng), 阿米巴 (zh) (āmǐbā)

• Czech: améba (cs) f, měňavka (cs) f
• Danish: amøbe (da) c
• Dutch: amoebe (nl) f
• Esperanto: amebo (eo)
• Estonian: amööb
• Faroese: skaploysingur m, amøba f
• Finnish: ameba (fi)
• French: amibe (fr) f
• Galician: ameba (gl) f
• Georgian: ამება (ameba)
• German: Amöbe (de) f, Wechseltierchen (de) n
• Greek: αμοιβάδα (el) f (amoiváda)
• Hebrew: אָמֶבָּה f
• Hindi: अमीबा (hi) m (amībā)
• Hungarian: amőba (hu)
• Icelandic: amaba f, amba f, slímdýr n
• Ido: amebo (io)
• Indonesian: ameba (id), amuba (id)
• Irish: aiméibe f
• Italian: ameba (it) f
• Japanese: アメーバ (ja) (amēba)
• Kazakh: амёба (ameba)
• Khmer: អាមីប (ʼaamiip)
• Korean: 아메바 (ko) (ameba)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: amîba (ku)

• Kyrgyz: амёба (ky) (amyoba)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: amēba f
• Lithuanian: amebos
• Macedonian: аме́ба f (améba)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: amoeba m
• Maori: pūora
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: амёб (mn) (amjob), эстэй амьтан (estej amʹtan)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠶᠣᠪᠠ (amyoba), ᠡᠰ ᠲᠡᠢ
  ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (es-tei amitan)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: amøbe (no) m

• Pashto: آمېب f (āméb), اميب f (amíb)
• Persian: امیب (amib)
• Polish: ameba (pl) f, pełzak m
• Portuguese: ameba (pt) f
• Romanian: amibă (ro) f
• Russian: амёба (ru) f (amjóba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: аме́ба f

  Roman: améba (sh) f

• Slovak: améba (sk) f
• Slovene: ameba f
• Spanish: ameba (es) f
• Swahili: amiba
• Swedish: amöba (sv) c
• Tagalog: ameba, ameba
• Tajik: амеба (ameba), амёба (amyoba)
• Thai: อะมีบา (à-mii-bâa)
• Turkish: amip (tr)
• Turkmen: amýoba (tk)
• Ukrainian: аме́ба (uk) f (améba)
• Urdu: امیبا m (amībā)
• Uyghur: ئامىبا (amiba)
• Uzbek: amyoba
• Vietnamese: amip, a míp, a-míp, trùng biến hình
• Welsh: ameba m

Further reading

• amoeba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈmoe̯.ba/, [äˈmoe̯bä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈme.ba/, [äˈmɛːbä]

Noun

amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension

1. amoeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	amoeba	amoebae
genitive	amoebae	amoebārum
dative	amoebae	amoebīs
accusative	amoebam	amoebās
ablative	amoebā	amoebīs
vocative	amoeba	amoebae