cyte
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /saɪt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /sʌɪt/
- Rhymes: -aɪt, -ʌɪt
Noun
cyte (plural cytes)
- (biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
- 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:
- The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.
- 1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1:
Etymology 2
Noun
cyte (plural cytes)
- Obsolete form of city. [13th—16th c.]
Middle English
Noun
cyte
- alternative form of cite
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
For earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).
Related to cote, though the exact details are unclear.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃyː.te/
Noun
ċȳte f
Declension
Weak feminine (n-stem):
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ċȳte | ċȳtan |
| accusative | ċȳtan | ċȳtan |
| genitive | ċȳtan | ċȳtena |
| dative | ċȳtan | ċȳtum |
Descendants
- Middle English: chete
References
- ^ Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cete”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ M. T. Löfvenberg (1944) “An Etymological Note”, in Studia Neophilologica[1], volume 17, number 2, , pages 259-265
- ^ Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “cyte”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.