English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
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gamete (plural gametes)
- (cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.
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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)
- Esperanto: gameto
- Estonian: sugurakk
- Finnish: sukusolu (fi), gameetti (fi), sukupuolisolu (fi)
- French: gamète (fr) m
- German: Geschlechtszellen, Gamet (de) m
- Greek: γαμέτης (el) m (gamétis)
- Hindi: जननकोश (janankoś)
- Hungarian: gaméta, ivarsejt (hu)
- (deprecated template usage)
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- Icelandic: kynfruma (is) f
- Ido: gameto (io)
- Italian: gamete (it) m
- Japanese: 配偶子 (はいぐうし, haigūshi)
- Kazakh: жыныс жасушасы (jynys jasuşasy)
- Maori: pūtau hema
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kjønnscelle
- Nynorsk: kjønnscelle
- Persian: زامه (zâme)
- Portuguese: gameta (pt) f
- Russian: гаме́та (ru) f (gaméta)
- Spanish: gameto (es) m
- Swedish: gamet (sv) c, könscell (sv) c
- Tamil: பாலணு (pālaṇu)
- Turkish: gamet (tr), dölcük, eşey hücresi (tr), eşeylik gözesi
- Welsh: gamet (cy) m
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Italian
Noun
gamete m (plural gameti)
- (cytology) gamete
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