protéine
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πρωτεῖος (prōteîos, “of the first quality”) + -ine. Coined 1838 by Dutch chemist Gerardus Johannes Mulder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʁɔ.te.in/
Audio: (file)
Noun
protéine f (plural protéines)
- protein
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN, page 27:
- Il n'achète plus de viande, les protéines c'est pour les sportifs.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
- glycoprotéine
- lipoprotéine
- métalloprotéine
- phosphoprotéine
- protéinase
- protéiner
- protéinique
- protéinogramme
- protéinurie
Related terms
Descendants
Descendants
- → Catalan: proteïna
- → Czech: protein
- → Danish: protein
- → Dutch: proteïne
- → English: protein
- → Esperanto: proteino
- → German: Protein
- → Galician: proteína
- → Greek: πρωτεΐνη (proteḯni)
- → Hungarian: protein
- → Indonesian: protein
- → Interlingua: proteina
- → Italian: proteina
- → Norwegian Bokmål: protein
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: protein
- → Polish: proteina
- → Portuguese: proteína
- → Romanian: proteină
- → Spanish: proteína
- → Swedish: protein
- → Turkish: protein
- → Vietnamese: protein
- → Yiddish: פּראָטעיִן (protein)
Further reading
- “protéine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.