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)

  (file)

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.
   1. (LGBT, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.

      I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.

3. (botany) 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
• hormones
• 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), sisäerite, umpierite
• 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)
• Vietnamese: nội tiết tố

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.

Translations

to treat with hormones

Anagrams

• moorhen

---

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.mɔn/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

Noun

hormone f (plural hormones)

1. hormone

Derived terms

• hormonal

Further reading

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

---

Interlingua

Noun

hormone (plural hormones)

1. Alternative form of hormon.