zygote

See also: Zygote

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ζυγωτός (zugōtós, “yoked”), past participle of ζυγόω (zugóō, “to yoke”), from ζυγόν (zugón, “yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”). Cognate with yoke and jugular.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪɡəʊt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈzaɪɡoʊt/

Noun

zygote (plural zygotes)

A fertilized egg cell.
Hyponyms: homozygote, heterozygote

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

→ Irish: siogót
→ Malay: zigot

Translations

fertilized egg cell

Arabic: زىجوت (zijut)
Catalan: zigot m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 受精卵 (zh) (shòujīngluǎn), 合子 (zh) (hézǐ)
Czech: zygota f
Danish: zygote c
Estonian: sügoot
Finnish: tsygootti (fi), hedelmöitynyt munasolu
French: zygote (fr) m
Galician: cigoto (gl) m
German: Zygote (de) f
Greek: ζυγωτό (el) n (zygotó)
Hebrew: זִיגוֹטָה (he) f (zigóta)
Hindi: युग्मनज m (yugmanaj)
Hungarian: zigóta (hu)
Icelandic: okfruma f
Ido: zigoto (io)
Italian: zigote (it) m
Japanese: 接合子 (せつごうし, setsugōshi)
Kashubian: zygòta f
Kazakh: ұрықтанған жасуша (ūryqtanğan jasuşa)
Korean: 접합자(接合子) (ko) (jeophapja)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: zîgot f
Malay:
Jawi: زيݢوت

Rumi: zigot
Maori: pūtau hua
Polish: zygota (pl) f
Portuguese: zigoto (pt) m
Russian: зиго́та (ru) f (zigóta)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зиго̀та f

Roman: zigòta (sh) f
Spanish: cigoto (es) m, zigoto (es) m
Swedish: zygot (sv) c
Tagalog: punlog
Telugu: సంయుక్తబీజము (saṁyuktabījamu)
Turkish: zigot (tr)
Vietnamese: hợp tử (合子)

Further reading

zygote on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zi.ɡɔt/
Audio (file)

Noun

zygote m (plural zygotes)

zygote

Derived terms

zygotique

Descendants

→ Romanian: zigot
→ Turkish: zigot

Further reading

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

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