# hormone
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɔːməʊn/
* (US) IPA: /ˈhoɹmoʊn/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

hormone (plural hormones)
* (physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.
** 1998, Paul Valent, Trauma and fulfillment therapy: a wholist framework:Interfemale dominance may be facilitated by female sex hormones as well as adrenal testosterone...
** 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 165:Hormones are the bicycle couriers of the body, delivering chemical messages all around the teeming metropolis that is you.
* (pharmacology) A synthetic compound with the same activity.
** 1962, D. J. B. Ashley, Human Intersex:Tumours of the adrenal cortex which secreted feminizing hormones […]
** 2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.
** (LGBTQ, colloquial, usually in the plural) Sex hormones, as used in hormone replacement therapy for transgender or intersex people.
    I'm going to be going to slightly higher doses of hormones soon.
* (botany) Any similar substance in plants.

#### Hyponyms

* See also Thesaurus:hormone

#### Derived terms

* adipohormone
* adrenocorticotropic hormone
* allohormone
* antidiuretic hormone
* antihormone
* anti-Müllerian hormone
* caudodorsal cell hormone
* corticotropin-releasing hormone
* dorsal body hormone
* ectohormone
* enterohormone
* follicle stimulating hormone
* follicle-stimulating hormone
* gonadotropin-releasing hormone
* growth hormone
* hormonal
* hormonelike
* hormone replacement therapy
* hormone-replacement therapy
* hormones
* hormone therapy
* juvenile hormone
* light green cell hormone
* luteinising hormone
* luteinizing hormone
* melanocyte-stimulating hormone
* 'mones
* mones
* multihormone
* necrohormone
* neurohormone
* neurohypophysis hormone
* nonhormone
* parahormone
* parathormone
* parathyroid hormone
* phytohormone
* plant hormone
* prehormone
* preprohormone
* prohormone
* proteohormone
* prothoracicotropic hormone
* releasing hormone
* rooting hormone
* sex hormone
* thyroid hormone
* thyroid-stimulating hormone
* thyrotropic hormone
* thyrotropin-releasing hormone
* trophic hormone
* tropic hormone
* xenohormone

#### Translations
### Verb

hormone (third-person singular simple present hormones, present participle hormoning, simple past and past participle hormoned)
* (transitive, colloquial) To treat with hormones.

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* moorhen

## French
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὁρμῶν (hormôn), present participle of ὁρμάω (hormáō, “to set in motion, to urge on”), from ὁρμή (hormḗ, “rapid motion forwards, onrush, onset, assault, impulse to do a thing, effort”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔʁ.mɔn/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

hormone f (plural hormones)
* hormone

#### Derived terms

* hormonal

### Further reading

* “hormone”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

hormone (plural hormones)
* Alternative form of hormon.

## Spanish
### Verb

hormone
* inflection of hormonar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative