Word: testosterone
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: te
sto
ster
one
Definition: A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristic s, produced mainly in the testes, but also in the ovaries and adrenal cortex.
Morphemes:
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: any similar compound containing a carbonyl functional group