cyte
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kútos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcyte (plural cytes)
- (biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)
- 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:
- The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.
- 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcyte (plural cytes)
Middle English
editNoun
editcyte
- Alternative form of cite
Old English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFor earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).
Related to cote, though the exact details are unclear.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editċȳte f
Declension
editDeclension of ċȳte (weak)
Descendants
edit- Middle English: chete
References
edit- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cete”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ M. T. Löfvenberg (1944) “An Etymological Note”, in Studia Neophilologica[2], volume 17, number 2, , pages 259-265
- ^ Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cyte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[3], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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