autosome

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ -some, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːtəsəʊm/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾəˌsoʊm/
(Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑtəzoʊm/

Noun

autosome (plural autosomes)

(genetics) Any chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
- 1906 January 5, Thos. H. Montgomery, “The terminology of aberrant chromosomes and their behavivor in certain Hemiptera”, in Science, volume 23, number 575, page 36:
  Autosoma (or autosome), the usual or non-aberrant chromosomes, called by me previously ordinary chromosomes.
- 1908, Herbert Spencer Davis, Spermatogenesis in Acrididae and Locustidae:
  It is apparently formed by the arms of the loops becoming twisted around each other, and, as in the Acrididae, each of these arms no doubt represents a univalent autosome.

Derived terms

autosomal

Translations

any chromosome other than sex chromosomes

Chinese:
Mandarin: 常染色體／常染色体 (zh) (cháng rǎnsètǐ)
Dutch: autosoom (nl) n
Finnish: autosomi
French: autosome (fr) m
Italian: autosoma (it) m
Japanese: 常染色体 (ja) (jōsenshokutai)
Polish: autosom m
Romanian: autozom (ro) m
Spanish: autosoma m
Swedish: autosom c
Turkish: otozom (tr)

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o.to.zom/, /ɔ.to.zom/

Noun

autosome m (plural autosomes)

(genetics) autosome

Descendants

→ Romanian: autozom

Further reading

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

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