metabolite

See also: métabolite

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *me

Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?

Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)

Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)

Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.

Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō

Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō)

Ancient Greek μεταβάλλω (metabállō)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-ā́

Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)

Ancient Greek -η (-ē)

Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ)

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English metabolism

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.

Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.

Latin -ītēslbor.

French -iteder.

English -ite

English metabolite

From metabolism + -ite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪˈtæbəlaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

metabolite (plural metabolites)

1. Any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction.
   • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 33:

     Cannabis and some of its metabolites, for example, persist in the fat stores of the body for several weeks after a single dose.

   • 2015, Ferris Jabr, How Humans Ended Up With Freakishly Huge Brains Wired‎^[1]:

     In addition to looking at gene expression, Bozek and her colleagues analyzed levels of metabolites, a diverse group of small molecules that includes sugars, nucleic acids and neurotransmitters. Many metabolites are either necessary for metabolism or produced by it.

Derived terms

• antimetabolite
• biometabolite
• cometabolite
• eigenmetabolite
• endometabolite
• epimetabolite
• exometabolite
• hydroxymetabolite
• immunometabolite
• metabolitic
• metabolomics
• micrometabolite
• multimetabolite
• neurometabolite
• oncometabolite
• phosphometabolite
• photometabolite
• phytometabolite
• primary metabolite
• radiometabolite
• secondary metabolite
• selenometabolite
• sialometabolite

Translations

any substance produced by, or taking part in, a metabolic reaction

• Belarusian: метабаліт (mjetabalit)
• Bulgarian: метаболит m (metabolit)
• Catalan: metabòlit m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代謝產物 / 代谢产物 (dàixiè chǎnwù), 代謝物 / 代谢物 (dàixièwù)

• Danish: metabolit
• Dutch: metaboliet (nl) m
• Finnish: metaboliitti (fi), aineenvaihduntatuote
• French: métabolite (fr) m
• Galician: metabolito (gl) m
• German: Metabolit (de) m
• Greek: μεταβολίτης (el) m (metavolítis)
• Icelandic: myndefni (is) n
• Indonesian: metabolit (id)
• Malay: bahantara
• Polish: metabolit (pl) m
• Portuguese: metabólito m
• Russian: метаболи́т (ru) m (metabolít)
• Spanish: metabolito (es) m
• Swedish: metabolit
• Ukrainian: метаболіт m (metabolit)