ameba

See also: améba

English

An amoeba.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ə-mēʹbə, IPA(key): /əˈmiːbə/
  • Rhymes: -iːbə

Noun

ameba (plural amebas or amebae)

  1. Standard spelling of amoeba.

Anagrams

Finnish

(index am)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑmeːbɑ/
  • Hyphenation: a‧me‧ba

Noun

ameba

  1. (biology) amoeba

Declension

Inflection of ameba (Kotus type 11/omena, no gradation)
nominative ameba amebat
genitive ameban amebien
ameboiden
ameboitten
partitive amebaa amebia
ameboita
illative amebaan amebiin
ameboihin
singular plural
nominative ameba amebat
accusative nom. ameba amebat
gen. ameban
genitive ameban amebien
ameboiden
ameboitten
amebojenrare
amebainrare
partitive amebaa amebia
ameboita
amebojarare
inessive amebassa ameboissa
amebissa
elative amebasta ameboista
amebista
illative amebaan amebiin
ameboihin
adessive ameballa ameboilla
amebilla
ablative amebalta ameboilta
amebilta
allative ameballe ameboille
amebille
essive amebana ameboina
amebina
translative amebaksi ameboiksi
amebiksi
instructive — ameboin
amebin
abessive amebatta ameboitta
amebitta
comitative — ameboineen
amebineen

Italian

Etymology

From Latin amoeba (“change, alternation, transformation”), from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

Noun

ameba f (plural amebe)

  1. (biology) amoeba

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈmɛ.ba/
  • audio(file)

Noun

ameba f

  1. amoeba (a genus of unicellular protozoa)

Declension

Further reading

  • ameba in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

ameba f (plural amebas)

  1. (biology) amoeba (a genus of unicellular protozoa)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aměːba/

Noun

améba f (Cyrillic spelling аме́ба)

  1. amoeba

Declension

Spanish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eβa

Noun

ameba f (plural amebas)

  1. amoeba

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English amoeba.

Pronunciation

Noun

ameba m (plural amebas or amebâu)

  1. amoeba

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ameba unchanged unchanged hameba
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.