hormonal

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Ancient Greek -άω (-áō)

Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn)lbor.

English hormone

English -al

English hormonal

From hormone + -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹˈmoʊnəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

hormonal (comparative more hormonal, superlative most hormonal)

1. (biochemistry) Pertaining to hormones.
   • 2023 March 21, Jessie Gretener, “Progestagen-only contraceptives carry similar, small breast cancer risk as other hormone contraceptives, study finds”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The authors also said they attempted to investigate whether there are differing breast cancer risks between hormonal and nonhormonal IUDs.

2. (colloquial) Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.
3. Strongly affected by one's hormones.

   a hormonal teenage boy

   • 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:

     All those male bodies and loud, virile male hormonal voices.

Derived terms

• allohormonal
• antihormonal
• bihormonal
• chemohormonal
• ectohormonal
• hormonally
• hyperhormonal
• multihormonal
• neurohormonal
• nonhormonal
• parahormonal
• phytohormonal
• plurihormonal
• polyhormonal
• unihormonal
• xenohormonal

Translations

pertaining to hormones

• Asturian: hormonal
• Belarusian: гармана́льны (harmanálʹny)
• Catalan: hormonal (ca)
• Czech: hormonální (cs)
• Danish: hormonal
• Dutch: hormonaal (nl)
• Finnish: hormonaalinen (fi)
• French: hormonal (fr)
• Galician: hormonal (gl)
• German: hormonal
• Hungarian: hormonális (hu)
• Irish: hormónach
• Italian: ormonale (it)
• Kazakh: гормондық (gormondıq)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hormonell

  Nynorsk: hormonell

• Polish: hormonalny (pl)
• Portuguese: hormonal (pt)
• Russian: гормона́льный (ru) (gormonálʹnyj)
• Spanish: hormonal (es)
• Swedish: hormonell (sv)
• Ukrainian: гормона́льний (hormonálʹnyj)

of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle

• Dutch: hormonaal (nl)

strongly affected by one's hormones

• Swedish: hormonstinn

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔ.nal/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Adjective

hormonal (feminine hormonale, masculine plural hormonaux, feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

Further reading

• “hormonal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Interlingua

Adjective

hormonal (not comparable)

1. hormonal

Related terms

• hormon
• hormonic

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oɦ.moˈnaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oɦ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oɾ.moˈnaw/ [oɾ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oʁ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Caipira) IPA^(key): /oɻ.moˈnaw/ [oɻ.moˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈnal/ [ɔɾ.muˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈnal/ [ɔɾ.muˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈna.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: hor‧mo‧nal

Adjective

hormonal m or f (plural hormonais)

1. hormonal

Further reading

• “hormonal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hormonal. By surface analysis, hormon +‎ -al.

Adjective

hormonal m or n (feminine singular hormonală, masculine plural hormonali, feminine/neuter plural hormonale)

1. hormonal

Declension

Declension of hormonal

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	hormonal		hormonală	hormonali	hormonale
	definite	hormonalul		hormonala	hormonalii	hormonalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	hormonal		hormonale	hormonali	hormonale
	definite	hormonalului		hormonalei	hormonalilor	hormonalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾmoˈnal/ [oɾ.moˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: hor‧mo‧nal

Adjective

hormonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

Derived terms

• hormonalmente

Related terms

• hormona f

Further reading

• “hormonal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025