codon

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.dɒn/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.dɑn/
• Hyphenation: co‧don

From Latin codon, from Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

codon (plural codons)

1. A handbell used for summoning monks.^[1][2]
2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.^[3]

From code +‎ -on.

codon (plural codons)

1. (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.

• anticodon
• dicodon
• homocodon
• stop codon
• start codon
• tricodon
• initiation codon
• termination codon

• nucleotide

• Condo, Condo., condo, no-doc

From English.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.dɔ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɔ̃

codon m (plural codons)

1. (biochemistry) codon

• condo

From Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

cōdōn ? (genitive cōdōnis); third declension

1. (Medieval Latin) codon: a handbell used for summoning monks.

Third-declension noun.

• “codon”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “codon”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “codon”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔdɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkoːdɔn/, /ˈkɔdɔn/

codon

1. first-person plural preterite of codi
2. third-person plural preterite of codi