colágeno
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈla.ʒe.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈla.ʒe.no/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuˈla.ʒɨ.nu/
- Hyphenation: co‧lá‧ge‧no
Noun
colágeno m (plural colágenos)
- (biochemistry) collagen (glycoprotein that forms elongated fibres)
- Synonym: colagénio
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French collagène, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) and -geno.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈlaxeno/ [koˈla.xe.no]
- Rhymes: -axeno
- Syllabification: co‧lá‧ge‧no
Adjective
colágeno (feminine colágena, masculine plural colágenos, feminine plural colágenas)
Noun
colágeno m (plural colágenos)
Further reading
- “colágeno”, 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