protoplasme
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Protoplasma, coined by Czech physiologist Johannes Evangelista Purkinje, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + πλάσμα (plásma, “something molded”). The word was in (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin, meaning "first created thing," and may have existed in Medieval Greek in a different sense.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁo.to.plasm/
- Homophone: protoplasmes
Noun
protoplasme m (plural protoplasmes)
Further reading
- “protoplasme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.