micelle

English

Alternative forms

• micell (dated)
• micella

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin mīcella, from mīca (“crumb”) + -ella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɪˈsɛl/, /məˈsɛl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

micelle (plural micelles)

2. (chemistry) a colloidal aggregate, in a simple geometric form, of a specific number of amphipathic molecules which forms at a well-defined concentration, called the critical micelle concentration

Derived terms

• bicelle
• critical micelle concentration
• hemimicelle
• micellar
• micellization
• micellize
• micromicelle
• nanomicelle
• proteomicelle
• pseudomicelle
• submicelle

Translations

colloidal aggregate

• Arabic: مُذَيْلَة f (muḏayla), فُتَيْتَة f (futayta)
• Catalan: micel·la (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 膠束 / 胶束 (jiāoshù)

• Czech: micela f
• Danish: micelle c
• Finnish: miselli (fi)
• French: micelle (fr) f
• German: Mizelle (de) f
• Italian: micella (it) f
• Kazakh: мицелла (misella)
• Kyrgyz: мицелла (mitsella)
• Latin: mīcella f
• Polish: micela (pl) f
• Portuguese: micela (pt) f
• Russian: мице́лла (ru) f (micélla)
• Spanish: micela f
• Swedish: micell c
• Turkish: misel (tr)
• Welsh: misel m

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miˈselə]

Noun

micelle

1. micelle

Declension

Declension of micelle

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	micelle	micellen	miceller	micellerne
genitive	micelles	micellens	micellers	micellernes

French

Etymology

Formed from the root of Latin mīca, with the suffix -elle, or borrowed from New Latin micella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.sɛl/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

micelle f (plural micelles)

1. micelle

Derived terms

• micellaire

Related terms

• mie

Descendants

• Turkish: misel

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

micelle f

1. plural of micella