hormon

See also: Hormon and hormón

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦormon]
  • Hyphenation: hor‧mon

Noun

hormon m inan

  1. hormone

Declension

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon n (singular definite hormonet, plural indefinite hormoner)

  1. hormone

Declension

Declension of hormon
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hormon hormonet hormoner hormonerne
genitive hormons hormonets hormoners hormonernes

Derived terms

  • hormonal
  • hormonbalance
  • hormonbehandle
  • hormonbehandling
  • hormonbøf
  • hormonel
  • hormonforandring
  • hormonforstyrrelse
  • hormonkød
  • hormonproduktion
  • hormonpræparat
  • hormontilskud
  • hormontype
  • kønshormon
  • peptidhormon
  • plantehormon
  • steroidhormon
  • stresshormon
  • væksthormon

References

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on). Coined by Ernest Starling, British physiologist.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhormon]
  • Hyphenation: hor‧mon
  • Rhymes: -on

Noun

hormon (plural hormonok)

  1. (physiology) hormone (any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity)
  2. (pharmacology) hormone (a synthetic compound with the same activity)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hormon hormonok
accusative hormont hormonokat
dative hormonnak hormonoknak
instrumental hormonnal hormonokkal
causal-final hormonért hormonokért
translative hormonná hormonokká
terminative hormonig hormonokig
essive-formal hormonként hormonokként
essive-modal
inessive hormonban hormonokban
superessive hormonon hormonokon
adessive hormonnál hormonoknál
illative hormonba hormonokba
sublative hormonra hormonokra
allative hormonhoz hormonokhoz
elative hormonból hormonokból
delative hormonról hormonokról
ablative hormontól hormonoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular
hormoné hormonoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural
hormonéi hormonokéi
Possessive forms of hormon
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hormonom hormonjaim
2nd person sing. hormonod hormonjaid
3rd person sing. hormonja hormonjai
1st person plural hormonunk hormonjaink
2nd person plural hormonotok hormonjaitok
3rd person plural hormonjuk hormonjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Further reading

  • hormon in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch hormoon, from English hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɔrmɔn]
  • Hyphenation: hor‧mon

Noun

hormon (plural hormon-hormon)

  1. hormone
    1. (physiology) any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity
    2. (pharmacology) a synthetic compound with the same activity
    3. (botany) any similar substance in plants

Hyponyms

  • hormon adenotropik
  • hormon adrenokortikotropik
  • hormon aldosteron
  • hormon antidiuretik
  • hormon grelin
  • hormon inhibisi
  • hormon inkretin
  • hormon insulin
  • hormon kortisol
  • hormon luka
  • hormon oksitosin
  • hormon oreksin
  • hormon paratiroid
  • hormon prolaktin
  • hormon tumbuh

Further reading

Interlingua

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon (plural hormones)

  1. hormone

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon n (definite singular hormonet, indefinite plural hormon or hormoner, definite plural hormona or hormonene)

  1. hormone

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon n (definite singular hormonet, indefinite plural hormon, definite plural hormona)

  1. hormone

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxɔr.mɔn/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔrmɔn
  • Syllabification: hor‧mon

Noun

hormon m inan

  1. hormone

Declension

Derived terms

adjectives
nouns
  • antyhormon
  • hormonit
  • hormonizacja
  • hormonoid
  • hormonoterapia
verb
  • hormonizować

Further reading

  • hormon in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • hormon in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English hormone, from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon m (plural hormoni)

  1. hormone

Declension

Declension of hormon
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative hormon hormonul hormoni hormonii
genitive-dative hormon hormonului hormoni hormonilor
vocative hormonule hormonilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xǒrmoːn/

Noun

hòrmōn m inan (Cyrillic spelling хо̀рмо̄н)

  1. hormone

Declension

Declension of hormon
singular plural
nominative hòrmōn hormoni
genitive hormóna hormona
dative hormonu hormonima
accusative hormon hormone
vocative hormone hormoni
locative hormonu hormonima
instrumental hormonom hormonima

Swedish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, to set in motion, urge on).

Noun

hormon n

  1. hormone

Inflection

Derived terms

References

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English hormone.

Noun

hormon m (plural hormonau, not mutable)

  1. hormone

Derived terms

  • hormonaidd
  • hormonol

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hormon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies