hormone

See also: Hormone

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”), whence 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.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:

     Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.

2. (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
3. Any similar substance in plants.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:hormone

Derived terms

• adipohormone
• adrenocorticotropic hormone
• allohormone
• antidiuretic hormone
• antihormone
• anti-Müllerian hormone
• caudodorsal cell hormone
• dorsal body hormone
• ectohormone
• enterohormone
• follicle-stimulating hormone
• follicle stimulating hormone
• growth hormone
• hormonal
• hormonelike
• hormone-replacement therapy
• hormone replacement therapy
• hormone therapy
• juvenile hormone
• light green cell hormone
• luteinising hormone
• luteinizing hormone
• melanocyte-stimulating hormone
• 'mones
• mones
• multihormone
• necrohormone
• neurohormone
• neurohypophysis hormone
• nonhormone
• parahormone
• parathormone
• parathyroid hormone
• phytohormone
• plant hormone
• prehormone
• preprohormone
• prohormone
• proteohormone
• prothoracicotropic hormone
• releasing hormone
• sex hormone
• trophic hormone
• tropic hormone
• xenohormone

 

Translations

substance produced by the body that effects physiological activity

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

  Cantonese: 激素 (gik¹ sou³)

  Mandarin: 激素 (zh) (jīsù), 荷爾蒙 (zh), 荷尔蒙 (zh) (hé'ěrméng)

  Min Nan: 激素 (kek-sò͘)

• 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 (hŏrmon), न्यासर्ग (nyāsarg), अंतःस्राव (antaḥsrāv)
• Hungarian: hormon (hu)
• Icelandic: hormón m or n
• Ido: hormono (io)
• Indonesian: hormon (id)
• Irish: hormón m

• Italian: ormone (it) m
• Japanese: ホルモン (horumon)
• Korean: 호르몬 (ko) (horeumon)
• Latvian: hormons m
• Lithuanian: hormonas m
• Maori: taiaki
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hormon n

  Nynorsk: hormon n

• Persian: هورمون‎ (fa) (hurmun)
• Polish: hormon (pl) m
• Portuguese: hormônio (pt) m (Brazil), hormona (pt) f (Portugal)
• 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)
• Thai: ฮอร์โมน (th) (hɔɔ-moon)
• Ukrainian: гормо́н m (hormón)

synthetic compound with the same activity as a hormone

• Danish: hormon (da)
• Esperanto: hormono
• Finnish: hormoni (fi)
• Greek: ορμόνη (el) f (ormóni)

• Hungarian: hormon (hu)
• Portuguese: hormônio (pt) m (Brazil), hormona (pt) f (Portugal)
• Swedish: hormon (sv) n

a plant hormone

• Finnish: hormoni (fi), kasvihormoni (fi)
• Portuguese: hormônio (pt) m (Brazil), hormona (pt) f (Portugal)

• 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

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔn/

• Audio (Paris)

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Noun

hormone f (plural hormones)

1. hormone

Derived terms

• hormonal

Further reading

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

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Interlingua

Noun

hormone (plural hormones)

1. Alternative form of hormon.