germen

From Latin germen (“germ, seed”). Doublet of germ.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜː.mən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝ.mən/
• Homophone: German
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

germen (plural germens or germina)

1. (biology) The basic form of an organism; the seed or germ.

• Mergen

From earlier *genmen via dissimilation, from Proto-Italic *genamen, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁mn̥ (“offspring”, “seed”), from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”, “to give birth”).^[1][2] Equivalent to gignō (“I beget”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). Compare with genimen.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɛr.mɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɛr.men]

germen n (genitive germinis); third declension

1. shoot, sprout, bud
2. germ, seed, origin
3. embryo, fetus

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• germānus
• germināscō
• germinō

• germinātiō
• germinātus

• “germen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “germen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• germen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

• germene

Borrowed from Latin germen.

germen m (plural germeni)

1. embryo

   Synonym: embrion

2. (biology) seed, germ (small mass of cells from which an organism grows)
3. germ

   Synonym: microb

4. principle, element, component

   Synonyms: principiu, element

• germina
• germinare
• germinat
• germinabil
• germinabilitate

Borrowed from Latin germen (“germ, seed”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxeɾmen/ [ˈxeɾ.mẽn]
• Rhymes: -eɾmen
• Syllabification: ger‧men

germen m (plural gérmenes)

1. germen
2. microbe, microorganism
3. (figurative) seed, origin

• “germen”, 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