# embryo
## English
### Alternative forms

* (after the Medieval Latin embryo) embrio [Middle English to the 18th century], embryo [17th century to the present] (singular forms); embryones [17th century to the present], embrio’s [17th–18th centuries], embrioes [17th century], embryos [19th century to the present] (plural forms)
* (after the stem (embryōn-) of the Medieval Latin embryo) embrioun [Middle English], embrion [Middle English to the 18th century], embryon [17th–19th centuries] (singular forms); embrions [17th C.], embryons [17th–19th centuries] (plural forms)
* (after the Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon)) embryon [17th century to the present] (singular form); embryons [17th century to the present], embrya [18th century to the present] (plural forms)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryō, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”), from ἐν (en, “in-”) + βρύω (brúō, “I grow, swell”). Possibly related to Hebrew עֻבָּר (“fetus, embryo”) ('ʊbar).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɛmbɹi.əʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) IPA: /ˈɛmbɹi.oʊ/
* Hyphenation: em‧bryo

### Noun

embryo (plural embryos or embryones)
* In the reproductive cycle, the stage after the fertilization of the egg that precedes the development into a fetus.
** 2015 August 18, Clelia De-la-Peña et al., “The role of chromatin modifications in somatic embryogenesis in plants”, in Frontiers in Plant Science‎, volume 6, →DOI:SE onset depends on a complex network of interactions among plant growth regulators, mainly auxins and cytokinins, during the proembryogenic early stages, and ethylene and gibberellic and abscisic acids later in the development of somatic embryos.
** 2015 December 4, “Divergent RNA Localisation Patterns of Maternal Genes Regulating Embryonic Patterning in the Butterfly Pararge aegeria”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.
* An organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis.
* In viviparous animals, the young animal's earliest stages in the mother's body
* In humans, usually the cell growth of the child within the mother's body, through the end of the seventh week of pregnancy
* (botany) A rudimentary plant contained in the seed.
* (figurative) The beginning; the first stage of anything.
** 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “An Introduction to the Following Treatise”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page lxxviii:[…] while the Company little ſuſpected what a noble Work I had then in Embryo […]
** 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo […]
** 1860 January – 1861 April, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published April 1861, →OCLC:Lord Lufton, with his barony and twenty thousand a year, might be accepted as just good enough; but failing him there was an embryo marquis, whose fortune would be more than ten times as great, all ready to accept his child!

#### Coordinate terms

* fetus, foetus
* zygote

#### Derived terms

* coconut embryo
* dysembryoma
* eleutheroembryo
* embryectomy
* embryocardia
* embryocidal
* embryogenesis
* embryogenetic
* embryogenic
* embryogony
* embryography
* embryoid
* embryokine
* embryoless
* embryolike
* embryology
* embryoma
* embryonary
* embryonic
* embryonical
* embryoniferous
* embryony
* embryopathic
* embryopathy
* embryophytic
* embryoplastic
* embryo sac
* embryoscope
* embryoscopy
* embryostasis
* embryostatic
* embryotomy
* embryotoxic
* embryotoxicity
* embryo transfer
* embryotrophic
* embryotropic
* embryous
* hybrid embryo
* in embryo
* interembryo
* monembryony
* polyembryo
* postembryo
* pre-embryo
* proembryo
* pseudembryo
* typembryo
* xenoembryo

#### Translations

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### Further reading

* embryo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Morbey, merboy

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛmbrɪjo]

### Noun

embryo n
* embryo
    Synonym: zárodek

#### Related terms

* embryonální

### Further reading

* “embryo”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “embryo”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* embryo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

## Dutch
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛm.bri.oː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: em‧bryo

### Noun

embryo n (plural embryo's, diminutive embryootje n)
* embryo

#### Derived terms

* embryogenese
* embryologie
* embryologisch
* embryoloog
* embryonaal
* embryoselectie
* embryotransplantatie

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: embrio

## Finnish
### Etymology

Internationalism (see English embryo), ultimately from Medieval Latin embryō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈembryo/, [ˈe̞m.bryo̞]
* Rhymes: -embryo
* Hyphenation: emb‧ryo

### Noun

embryo (rare)
* embryo

#### Declension

Possessive forms of embryo (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
embryoni
embryoni
accusative
nom.
embryoni
embryoni
gen.
embryoni
genitive
embryoni
embryoideni embryoitteni
partitive
embryotani
embryoitani
inessive
embryossani
embryoissani
elative
embryostani
embryoistani
illative
embryooni
embryoihini
adessive
embryollani
embryoillani
ablative
embryoltani
embryoiltani
allative
embryolleni
embryoilleni
essive
embryonani
embryoinani
translative
embryokseni
embryoikseni
abessive
embryottani
embryoittani
instructive
comitative
—embryoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
embryosi
embryosi
accusative
nom.
embryosi
embryosi
gen.
embryosi
genitive
embryosi
embryoidesi embryoittesi
partitive
embryotasi
embryoitasi
inessive
embryossasi
embryoissasi
elative
embryostasi
embryoistasi
illative
embryoosi
embryoihisi
adessive
embryollasi
embryoillasi
ablative
embryoltasi
embryoiltasi
allative
embryollesi
embryoillesi
essive
embryonasi
embryoinasi
translative
embryoksesi
embryoiksesi
abessive
embryottasi
embryoittasi
instructive
comitative
—embryoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
embryomme
embryomme
accusative
nom.
embryomme
embryomme
gen.
embryomme
genitive
embryomme
embryoidemme embryoittemme
partitive
embryotamme
embryoitamme
inessive
embryossamme
embryoissamme
elative
embryostamme
embryoistamme
illative
embryoomme
embryoihimme
adessive
embryollamme
embryoillamme
ablative
embryoltamme
embryoiltamme
allative
embryollemme
embryoillemme
essive
embryonamme
embryoinamme
translative
embryoksemme
embryoiksemme
abessive
embryottamme
embryoittamme
instructive
comitative
—embryoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
embryonne
embryonne
accusative
nom.
embryonne
embryonne
gen.
embryonne
genitive
embryonne
embryoidenne embryoittenne
partitive
embryotanne
embryoitanne
inessive
embryossanne
embryoissanne
elative
embryostanne
embryoistanne
illative
embryoonne
embryoihinne
adessive
embryollanne
embryoillanne
ablative
embryoltanne
embryoiltanne
allative
embryollenne
embryoillenne
essive
embryonanne
embryoinanne
translative
embryoksenne
embryoiksenne
abessive
embryottanne
embryoittanne
instructive
comitative
—embryoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
embryonsa
embryonsa
accusative
nom.
embryonsa
embryonsa
gen.
embryonsa
genitive
embryonsa
embryoidensa embryoittensa
partitive
embryotaan embryotansa
embryoitaan embryoitansa
inessive
embryossaan embryossansa
embryoissaan embryoissansa
elative
embryostaan embryostansa
embryoistaan embryoistansa
illative
embryoonsa
embryoihinsa
adessive
embryollaan embryollansa
embryoillaan embryoillansa
ablative
embryoltaan embryoltansa
embryoiltaan embryoiltansa
allative
embryolleen embryollensa
embryoilleen embryoillensa
essive
embryonaan embryonansa
embryoinaan embryoinansa
translative
embryokseen embryoksensa
embryoikseen embryoiksensa
abessive
embryottaan embryottansa
embryoittaan embryoittansa
instructive
comitative
—embryoineen embryoinensa :

#### Synonyms

* alkio

### Further reading

* “embryo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Interlingua
### Noun

embryo (plural embryos)
* embryo

#### Related terms

* embryonal

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

### Noun

embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo or embryoer, definite plural embryoa or embryoene)
* (biology, botany) an embryo

#### Related terms

* foster

### References

* “embryo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin embryo, from Ancient Greek ἔμβρυον (émbruon, “fetus”).

### Noun

embryo n (definite singular embryoet, indefinite plural embryo, definite plural embryoa)
* (biology, botany) an embryo

#### Related terms

* foster

### References

* “embryo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Swedish
### Noun

embryo n
* an embryo (unborn baby less developed than a fetus)
* an embryo (organism in the earlier stages of development before it emerges from the egg, or before metamorphosis)
* (figuratively) an embryo (beginning, first stage)

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | embryo | embryos |
| singular | definite | embryot | embryots |
| plural | indefinite | embryon | embryons |
| plural | definite | embryona | embryonas |

#### Related terms

* embryonal (“embryonic”)

#### See also

* foster (“fetus”)

### References

* embryo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* embryo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* embryo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)