axon

• axone (dated)

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈæksɒn/

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axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

• (nerve fibre): neuronal process, neurite, nerve fibre

• noxa

• IPA^(key): [ˈakson]

axon m inan

1. axon

• “axon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒkson]
• Hyphenation: axon
• Rhymes: -on

axon (plural axonok)

1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)

   Synonym: tengelyfonál

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈak.soːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈak.son]

axōn m (genitive axonis); third declension

1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
2. the axis of a ballista

Third-declension noun.

• “axon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axon in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “axon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Borrowed from French axone.

axon m (plural axoni)

1. axon