amoeba

See also: Amoeba, amöba, and amœba

English

An amoeba.

Alternative forms

• ameba, amœba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

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

Related terms

• amoebiasis
• amoebic dysentery

Translations

member of a genus of unicellular protozoa

• Arabic: أَمِيبَا‎‎ f (ʾamībā)
• Armenian: ամեոբա (hy) (ameoba)
• Belarusian: амёба f (amjóba)
• Bulgarian: аме́ба (bg) f (améba)
• Catalan: ameba f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 變形蟲 (zh), 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 f
• Georgian: ამება (ameba)
• German: Amöbe (de) f
• Greek: αμοιβάδα (el) f (amoiváda)
• Hebrew: אמבה‎‎ f
• Hindi: अमीबा (hi) (amībā)
• Hungarian: amőba (hu)
• Icelandic: amaba f, amba f
• Ido: amebo (io)
• Irish: aiméibe f
• Italian: amoeba f

• Japanese: アメーバ (ja) (amēba)
• Korean: 아메바 (ko) (ameba)
• Lithuanian: amebos
• Macedonian: амеба f (ameba)
• Manx: amoeba m
• Norwegian: amøbe (no)
• Persian: امیب‎‎ (amib)
• Polish: ameba (pl) f
• 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 f
• Swedish: amöba (sv) c
• Tagalog: ameba, ameba
• Thai: อะมีบา (àmeebaa)
• Turkish: amip (tr)
• Ukrainian: амеба (uk) f (ameba)
• Vietnamese: amip
• Welsh: ameba m

Further reading

• amoeba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmoe̯.ba/

Noun

amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension

1. amoeba

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	amoeba	amoebae
genitive	amoebae	amoebārum
dative	amoebae	amoebīs
accusative	amoebam	amoebās
ablative	amoebā	amoebīs
vocative	amoeba	amoebae