Word: transfection
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: trans
fec
tion
Definition: The introduction of foreign DNA into a eukaryotic cell.
Morphemes:
Affix: trans-
Language: en
PoS: Prefix
Meaning: Across, through, over, beyond, to or on the other side of, outside of.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: trāns
Language: la
Decoded: trans
Meaning: across, on the far side, beyond
Affix: infect
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To bring (the body or part of it) into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen), so that the pathogen begins to act on the body; (of a pathogen) to come into contact with (a body or body part) and begin to act on it.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: in-
Language: la
Decoded: in-
Meaning: in
Affix: factus
Language: la
Decoded: factus
PoS: Participle
Meaning: became
Affix: -ion
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: an action or process, or the result of an action or process
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -iō
Language: la
Decoded: -io
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form abstract nouns from verbs.