ameba

• enPR: ə-mēʹbə, IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːbə

ameba (plural amebas or amebae)

1. (American spelling) Alternative form of amoeba.

• Amoeba is the more widespread spelling of this word in the US.

• Ambae, abeam

• ameeba

Learned borrowing from New Latin amēba, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑme(ː)bɑ/, [ˈɑ̝me̞(ː)bɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmebɑ
• Syllabification^(key): a‧me‧ba
• Hyphenation^(key): ame‧ba

ameba

1. (biology) amoeba

• “ameba”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Dutch amoebe, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• IPA^(key): [ˈameba]
• Hyphenation: amé‧ba

améba (plural ameba-ameba)

1. amoeba, ameba: a member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia

• amuba, a variant that arose due to a misidentification of the digraph oe as coming from Dutch rather than Latin.

• “ameba” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Latin amoeba (“change, alternation, transformation”), from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛ.ba/
• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Hyphenation: a‧mè‧ba

ameba f (plural amebe)

1. (biology) amoeba
2. (colloquial, derogatory) an unintelligent or spineless person

• amebico

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from German Amöbe or English amoeba, ultimately from New Latin amoeba, from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”).^[1] First attested in the 19th century.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /aˈmɛ.ba/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛba
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ba

ameba f

1. amoeba (member of the genus Amoeba)

   Synonym: pełzak

   maleńka ameba ― tiny amoeba

   zakażenie amebą ― infected by an amoeba

2. (more generally) amoeba, amoeboid (unicellular organism which has the ability to alter its shape)

   Synonym: pełzak

3. (colloquial, derogatory) amoeba (unintelligent or spineless person)

   kosmopolityczna ameba ― cosmopolitan amoeba

   ameba społeczna ― social amoeba

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

From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

• Rhymes: -ɛbɐ

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. (biology) amoeba (a genus of unicellular protozoa)

• “ameba”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

• IPA^(key): /aměːba/

améba f (Cyrillic spelling аме́ба)

1. amoeba

• amibo
• amiba

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ).

• IPA^(key): /aˈmeba/ [aˈme.β̞a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ba

ameba f (plural amebas)

1. amoeba

• “ameba”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔaˈmeba/ [ʔɐˈmɛː.bɐ]
• Rhymes: -eba
• Syllabification: a‧me‧ba

ameba (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜋᜒᜊ)

1. alternative form of amiba

Borrowed from English amoeba.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /aˈmɛba/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /aˈmeːba/, /aˈmɛba/

ameba m (plural amebas or amebâu)

1. amoeba