Word: mesterolone
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: me
ster
o
lone
Definition: An androgen; male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics
Morphemes:
Affix: methyl-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Used to form terms describing the attachment of a methyl group
Affix: testis
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A testicle of a vertebrate; animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
Affix: -o-
Language: en
PoS: Interfix
Meaning: A linking vowel inserted interconsonantally between two morphemes, to ease pronunciation, without contributing to the meaning. It frequently joins words or of Ancient Greek or Classical Latin origin in the of New Latin and international scientific vocabulary but it can also be used to join modern terms and even abbreviations, either formally or informally.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -o-
Language: la
Decoded: -o-
PoS: Interfix
Meaning: Suffix forming nominal compounds (such as Gallo-Greek from Gallic and Greek ).
Affix: sterol
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any steroid that contains a hydroxyl group in the 3-position of the A-ring.
Affix: -one
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: a ketone; any of a class of organic compounds having a carbonyl group linked to a carbon atom in each of two hydrocarbon radicals
Affix: -olone
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form names of steroids or steroidlike drugs that are not prednisolone derivatives.