germe

Senso (Inglese)

1. (masculine) germ
2. (literary, masculine) seed, sprout
3. (figuratively, masculine) seed, beginning, origin
4. (archaic, figuratively, masculine) son, offspring
5. (archaic, figuratively, masculine, rare) lineage, progeny

sinonimi

embrione

feto

fonte

microbo

🦠

seme

nocciolo

🪨

agente patogeno

spora

grano

Traduzioni

Keim

germ

germe

germen

germe

seed

kiem

μικρόβιο

germen

microbe

🦠

Krankheitserreger

semence

graine

Con il trattino come

gèr‧me

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈd͡ʒɛr.me/

Etimologia (Inglese)

From Latin germen (“seed; origin”), from Proto-Italic *genamen, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring, seed”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to give birth, to beget”). Cognate with Irish giniúint (“procreation, birth”).