gamete

See also: gamète

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡæmiːt/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -iːt

Noun

gamete (plural gametes)

1. (cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

   Synonyms: sex cell, reproductive cell, germ cell

   Hyponyms: spermatozoon, sperm, ovum, egg; see also Thesaurus:gamete

Derived terms

• gametic
• gametically
• gametocyte
• gametogenesis
• gametophyte

 

Translations

reproductive cell

• Armenian: գամետ (hy) (gamet), սեռական բջիջ (seṙakan bǰiǰ)
• Assamese: জননকোষ (zonnoküx)
• Basque: gameto
• Catalan: gàmeta m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 配子 (zh) (pèizǐ)

• Czech: gameta (cs) f
• Danish: kønscelle c
• Dutch: geslachtscel (nl) f, voortplantingscel f, gameet (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: gameto
• Estonian: sugurakk
• Finnish: sukusolu (fi), gameetti (fi), sukupuolisolu (fi)
• French: gamète (fr) m, cellule reproductrice f
• German: Geschlechtszellen, Gamet (de) m
• Greek: γαμέτης (el) m (gamétis)
• Hindi: जननकोश (janankoś)
• Hungarian: gaméta (hu), ivarsejt (hu)
• Icelandic: kynfruma (is) f
• Ido: gameto (io)
• Italian: gamete (it) m
• Japanese: 配偶子 (ja) (はいぐうし, haigūshi)
• Kazakh: жыныс жасушасы (jynys jasuşasy)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xaneya zayendê f, gamet (ku)

• Maori: pūtau hema
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjønnscelle

  Nynorsk: kjønnscelle

• Persian: زامه (zâme)
• Polish: gameta (pl) f
• Portuguese: gameta (pt) m (Brazil), gâmeta (pt) m (Portugal)
• Russian: гаме́та (ru) f (gaméta)
• Slovak: gaméta (sk) f
• Spanish: gameto (es) m
• Swahili: gameti
• Swedish: gamet (sv) c, könscell (sv) c
• Tamil: பாலணு (pālaṇu)
• Turkish: gamet (tr), dölcük, eşey hücresi (tr), eşeylik gözesi
• Welsh: gamet (cy) m

See also

• meiosis
• oocyte
• spermatid
• syngamy

 

Anagrams

• metage

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), from γαμέω (gaméō, “I marry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈmɛ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛte
• Hyphenation: ga‧mè‧te

Noun

gamete m (plural gameti)

1. (cytology) gamete

Derived terms

• agametico
• gametangio
• gametico
• gametofito
• gametogenesi

 

Further reading

• gamete in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• gamete in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
• gamete in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• gamete in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• gamète in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• gamète in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• tegame