organelle

See also: Organelle

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-der.

Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon)bor.

Latin organumder.

Old French organebor.

Middle English organe

English organ

English -elle

English organelle

From organ + -elle.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌɔɹ.ɡənˈɛl/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛl

Noun

organelle (plural organelles)

1. (cytology) A specialized structure found inside cells that carries out a specific life process (e.g. ribosomes, vacuoles).
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 161:

     Like organelles within a single cell, whole new specializations began to develop.

   • 1991, Lynn Margulis, René Fester, Symbiosis as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation:

     The close analogies between DNA-containing eukaryotic cell organelles and microbial symbionts require revision of classic cell theory, wrote Scwemmler and Schenk (1980) on introducing the field of endocytobiology.

Synonyms

• organella

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:organelle

Derived terms

• interorganelle
• intraorganelle
• microrganelle
• multiorganelle
• organellar
• organellogenesis
• organellometry
• organellomics
• suborganelle

Translations

a membrane bound compartment found within cells

• Catalan: orgànul m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胞器 (zh) (bāoqì), 細胞器 / 细胞器 (zh) (xìbāoqì)

• Czech: organela (cs) f
• Dutch: organel (nl)
• Finnish: soluelin (fi)
• French: organite (fr) m
• German: Organell (de) n, Organelle (de) f
• Hebrew: אברון (he) m (evron)
• Hungarian: sejtszervecske (hu), sejtorganellum
• Icelandic: frumulíffæri (is) n
• Ido: organeto (io)
• Indonesian: organel (id)
• Irish: orgánaid f
• Japanese: 細胞小器官 (ja) (さいぼうしょうきかん, saibō shōkikan)
• Kazakh: органоид (organoid)
• Khmer: ធាតុកោសិកា (thiət kaosekaa)
• Korean: 세포소기관 (seposogigwan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: endamok n

• Macedonian: органе́ла f (organéla)
• Māori: wāhanga pūtau
• Occitan: organèla f
• Polish: organella (pl) f, organellum (pl) n, organoid (pl) m
• Portuguese: organela (pt) f, organelo m
• Russian: органе́лла (ru) f (organɛ́lla), органо́ид (ru) m (organóid)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Latin: orgànela f

• Spanish: orgánulo (es), organelo (es) m, elemento celular m
• Swedish: organell (sv) c
• Turkish: organel (tr)
• Ukrainian: органе́ла f (orhanéla), органо́їд m (orhanójid) (dated)
• Vietnamese: bào quan (vi)

Anagrams

• angel-lore

French

Etymology

From organe +‎ -elle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁ.ɡa.nɛl/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

organelle f (plural organelles)

1. (cytology) organelle

   Synonym: organite

Descendants

• → Turkish: organel