vacuole

English

Etymology

From French vacuole, from Medieval Latin vacuola, formed as a diminutive of Latin vacuus (“empty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvækjʊˌəʊl/

Noun

vacuole (plural vacuoles)

1. (cytology) A large membrane-bound vesicle in a cell's cytoplasm.
2. A small empty or air-filled space or vacuity.
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[1]:

     This surface itself was not entirely homogeneous, but beneath it, seen as through ground glass, there were dim whitish patches or vacuoles, which varied constantly in shape and size.

Derived terms

• contractile vacuole
• food vacuole
• hemivacuole
• macrovacuole
• microvacuole
• parasitophorous vacuole
• prevacuole
• provacuole

 

Translations

large membrane-bound vesicle

• Armenian: վակուոլ (hy) (vakuol)
• Catalan: vacúol m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 液泡 (zh) (yèpào)

• Czech: vakuola (cs) f
• Dutch: vacuole (nl) f
• Esperanto: vakuolo
• Finnish: vakuoli (fi)
• French: vacuole (fr) f
• Galician: vacúolo (gl) m
• German: Vakuole f
• Hebrew: חלולית f (khalulít)
• Hungarian: sejtnedvüreg (hu), űröcske
• Ido: vakuolo (io)
• Japanese: 液胞 (ja) (えきほう, ekihō)
• Kazakh: вакуоль (vakuol)
• Latin: vacuola f
• Malayalam: ഫേനം (ml) (phēnaṁ)
• Maori: miru
• Polish: wakuola (pl) f, wodniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vacúolo m
• Romanian: vacuolă (ro) f
• Russian: вакуо́ль (ru) f (vakuólʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: vakùōla (sh) f
• Spanish: vacuola (es) f
• Tagalog: lungkag
• Telugu: రిక్తిక (riktika)
• Turkish: koful (tr)
• Ukrainian: вакуо́ля (uk) f (vakuólja)
• Welsh: gwagolyn m

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.kɥɔl/

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Noun

vacuole f (plural vacuoles)

1. vacuole

Further reading

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