neuronal

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English neuron

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālisbor.

Old French -albor.

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Latin -ālis

Old French -elbor.

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Latin -ālisbor.

Middle English -al

English -al

English neuronal

From neuron + -al.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

neuronal (not comparable)

1. Of, or relating to a neuron.

   Synonym: neural

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     Nicotine, a stimulant found in tobacco, long used by Native Americans, taught scientists about the existence of our own nicotinic receptors, which influence neuronal excitement.

   • 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Preliminaries: Components of Language Structure” (chapter 2), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 48:

     Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) measures local blood flow related to neuronal firing: When cells fire, they use up oxygen and glucose, and new, oxygen-rich blood then comes in to replenish these resources. These influxes of blood are what fMRI measures.

Derived terms

• antineuronal
• corticoneuronal
• extraneuronal
• glioneuronal
• intraneuronal
• isoneuronal
• microneuronal
• multineuronal
• neuronally
• nonneuronal
• oligoneuronal
• onconeuronal
• panneuronal
• paraneuronal
• perineuronal
• polyneuronal
• premotorneuronal
• proneuronal
• subneuronal
• sympathoneuronal
• transneuronal

Translations

of, or relating to a neuron

• Catalan: neuronal
• Finnish: neuronaalinen, neuroni-
• French: neuronal (fr)
• Galician: neuronal m or f
• Italian: neuronale (it)
• Portuguese: neuronal (pt)
• Romanian: neuronic, neuronal
• Spanish: neuronal (es)

Anagrams

• enaluron

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [nəw.ɾuˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [nəw.ɾoˈnal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [new.ɾoˈnal]

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Adjective

neuronal m or f (masculine and feminine plural neuronals)

1. neuronal

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nø.ʁɔ.nal/

Adjective

neuronal (feminine neuronale, masculine plural neuronaux, feminine plural neuronales)

1. neuronal

Derived terms

• réseau neuronal

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• neuronial

Adjective

neuronal m or f (plural neuronais, not comparable)

1. neuronal (relating to neurons)

   Synonym: neurónico

Derived terms

• rede neuronal

Further reading

• “neuronal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “neuronal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /neuɾoˈnal/ [neu̯.ɾoˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: neu‧ro‧nal

Adjective

neuronal m or f (masculine and feminine plural neuronales)

1. neuronal

Further reading

• “neuronal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025