hormone

See also: Hormone

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”), from ὁρμάω (hormáō), ὁρμῶ (hormô, “to set in motion, to urge on, to cheer on, to make a start, to hasten on”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːməʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːɹmoʊn/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

hormone (plural hormones)

1. (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
2. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
3. Any similar substance in plants.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:hormone

Derived terms

• hormonal
• hormone therapy
• 'mones (mones)

Translations

substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity

• Arabic: هُرْمُون‏‎ m (hurmūn)
• Asturian: hormona f
• Bulgarian: хормон m (hormón)
• Catalan: hormona f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 激素 (gig¹sou³)

  Mandarin: 激素 (zh) (jīsù)

• Czech: hormon (cs) m
• Danish: hormon (da)
• Dutch: hormoon (nl) n
• Esperanto: hormono
• Finnish: hormoni (fi)
• French: hormone (fr) f
• Galician: hormona f
• German: Hormon (de) n
• Greek: ορμόνη (el) f (ormóni)
• Gujarati: ન્યાસર્ગ (nyāsarg), અંતઃસ્રાવ (antaḥsrāv)
• Hindi: हॉर्मोन (hormon), न्यासर्ग (nyāsarg), अंतःस्राव (antaḥsrāv)
• Icelandic: hormón m, n
• Ido: hormono (io)

• Irish: hormón m
• Italian: ormone (it) m
• Japanese: ホルモン (horumon)
• Korean: 호르몬 (ko) (horeumon)
• Maori: taiaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hormon n

  Nynorsk: hormon n

• Persian: هورمون‏‎ (fa) (hurmun)
• Polish: hormon (pl) m
• Portuguese: hormônio (pt) m
• Russian: гормо́н (ru) m (gormón), инкре́т (ru) m (inkrét)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хо̀рмо̄н m

  Roman: hòrmōn (sh) m

• Slovak: hormón (sk) m
• Spanish: hormona (es) f
• Swedish: hormon (sv) n
• Tamil: புலங்கள் (pulaṅkaḷ)

synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone

• Danish: hormon (da)
• Esperanto: hormono
• Finnish: hormoni (fi)

• Greek: ορμόνη (el) f (ormóni)
• Portuguese: hormônio (pt) m
• Swedish: hormon (sv) n

a plant hormone

• Finnish: hormoni (fi), kasvihormoni (fi)

• Swedish: hormon (sv) n, växthormon n

Verb

hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)

1. (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.

Anagrams

• moorhen

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔn/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

hormone m (plural hormones)

1. hormone

Derived terms

• hormonal

Further reading

• “hormone” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).