enzyme

See also: Enzyme and enzymé

English

Etymology

From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) +‎ ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.zaɪm/
Rhymes: -aɪm

Noun

enzyme (plural enzymes)

(biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.

Derived terms

Terms derived from enzyme

Translations

catalytic protein

Afrikaans: ensiem
Arabic: انزيم‎‎
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Basque: entzima
Bulgarian: ензим m (enzim)
Catalan: enzim m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 酶 (mui⁴), 酵素 (gaau³ sou³, haau¹ sou³) (dated)

Mandarin: 酶 (zh) (méi), 酵素 (zh) (jiàosù) (dated)

Min Nan: 酵素 (zh-min-nan) (kàⁿ-sò͘)
Czech: enzym (cs) m
Danish: enzym (da) n
Esperanto: enzimo
Finnish: entsyymi (fi)
French: enzyme (fr) m, f
Galician: enzima f
German: Enzym (de) n
Greek: ένζυμο (el) n (énzymo)
Hebrew: אנזים‎‎ (he)
Hungarian: enzim (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Irish: einsím f

Italian: enzima (it)
Japanese: 酵素 (ja) (こうそ, kōso)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 효소 (ko) (hyoso) (酵素 (ko))
Lithuanian: fermentas m, enzimas m
Maori: pūmua whākōkī
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: enzym (no) n

Nynorsk: enzym n
Persian: آنزیم‎‎ (fa) (ânzim)
Polish: enzym (pl) m
Portuguese: enzima (pt) f
Russian: ферме́нт (ru) m (fermént), энзи́м (ru) m (enzím)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: enzim
Somali: ensiim (so)
Spanish: enzima (es) f
Swedish: enzym (sv) n
Thai: เอนไซม์ (th) (en-saai)
Turkish: enzim (tr)
Vietnamese: enzym (vi)

Further reading

enzyme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Noun

enzyme m, f (plural enzymes)

(biochemistry) enzyme

Verb

enzyme

first-person singular present indicative of enzymer
third-person singular present indicative of enzymer
first-person singular present subjunctive of enzymer
third-person singular present subjunctive of enzymer
second-person singular imperative of enzymer

Further reading

“enzyme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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