metabolism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *me
Proto-Indo-European *meth₂?
Ancient Greek μετᾰ́ (metắ)
Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-)
Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-der.
Proto-Hellenic *gʷəlnō
Ancient Greek βάλλω (bállō)
Ancient Greek μεταβάλλω (metabállō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek μετᾰβολή (metăbolḗ)
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English metabolism
From Ancient Greek μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ism, from μεταβάλλω (metabállō, “to change, to alter”) + -η (-ē, action noun suffix).
Base: μεταβολή
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: metabolisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The metabolisms of aerobic bacteria require oxygen
gloss: The rate at which these processes occur for a given organism
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Small animals have a much higher metabolism than large animals because they lose more body heat
gloss: The processes that maintain any dynamic system.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
Related words: anabolism
antimetabole
catabolism
metabola
metabolic
metabolisation
metabolise
metabotropic
Derived words: ametabolism
bradymetabolism
cardiometabolism
chronometabolism
cometabolism
dysmetabolism
endometabolism
exometabolism
glycometabolism
hemimetabolism
heterometabolism
holometabolism
hypermetabolism
hypometabolism
immunometabolism
lipometabolism
macrometabolism
metabolite
metabolome
metametabolism
neurometabolism
normometabolism
paurometabolism
photometabolism
proteometabolism
protometabolism
psychometabolism
radiometabolism
saccharometabolism
selenometabolism
sialometabolism
tachymetabolism
thermometabolism
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَيْض
roman: ʔayḍ
lang: Arabic
word: تَمْثِيل غِذَائِيّ
roman: tamṯīl ḡiḏāʔiyy
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتِقْلَاب
roman: istiqlāb
lang: Armenian
word: նյութափոխանակություն
roman: nyutʻapʻoxanakutʻyun
lang: Asturian
word: metabolismu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: maddələr mübadiləsi
lang: Belarusian
word: абмен рэчываў
roman: abmjen rečyvaw
lang: Belarusian
word: метабалі́зм
roman: mjetabalízm
lang: Bulgarian
word: обмяна на веществата
roman: obmjana na veštestvata
lang: Bulgarian
word: метаболи́зъм
roman: metabolízǎm
lang: Catalan
word: metabolisme
lang: Chinese
word: 代謝 /代谢
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 代謝 /代谢
roman: dàixiè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 新陳代謝 /新陈代谢
roman: xīnchén dàixiè
lang: Czech
word: metabolismus
lang: Czech
word: metabolizmus
lang: Danish
word: stofskifte
lang: Dutch
word: stofwisseling
lang: Dutch
word: metabolisme
lang: Esperanto
word: metabolo
lang: Estonian
word: ainevahetus
lang: Estonian
word: metabolism
lang: Faroese
word: evnaskifti
lang: Faroese
word: evnabroyting
lang: Finnish
word: aineenvaihdunta
lang: Finnish
word: metabolismi
lang: French
word: métabolisme
lang: Galician
word: metabolismo
lang: Georgian
word: ნივთიერებათა ცვლა
roman: nivtierebata cvla
lang: Georgian
word: მეტაბოლიზმი
roman: meṭabolizmi
lang: German
word: Stoffwechsel
lang: German
word: Metabolismus
lang: Central Franconian
word: Schtoffwääßel
lang: Greek
word: μεταβολισμός
roman: metavolismós
lang: Gujarati
word: ચયાપચય
roman: cayāpacya
lang: Hawaiian
word: pūnao
lang: Hebrew
word: חילוף חומרים
roman: khilúf khomarím
lang: Hebrew
word: מטבוליזם
roman: metabolízem
lang: Hindi
word: चयापचय
roman: cayāpcay
lang: Hungarian
word: anyagcsere
lang: Icelandic
word: efnaskipti
lang: Ido
word: metabolio
lang: Italian
word: metabolismo
lang: Italian
word: ricambio
lang: Japanese
word: 代謝
roman: taisha
lang: Japanese
word: 新陳代謝
roman: shinchin taisha
lang: Japanese
word: 物質代謝
roman: busshitsu taisha
lang: Kannada
word: ಚಯಾಪಚಯ
roman: cayāpacaya
lang: Kazakh
word: зат алмасу
roman: zat almasu
lang: Khmer
word: ការដុតរំលាយអាហារក្នុងរាងកាយ
roman: kaa dot rumliəy ʼaahaa knong riəngkaay
lang: Korean
word: 신진대사
roman: sinjin daesa
lang: Korean
word: 물질대사
roman: muljil daesa
lang: Latvian
word: vielmaiņa
lang: Limburgish
word: stofwisseling
lang: Lithuanian
word: metabolizmas
lang: Lithuanian
word: medžiagų apykaita
lang: Low German
word: Stoffwessel
lang: Luxembourgish
word: stoffwiessel
lang: Malay
word: ungkai bina
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉപാപചയം
roman: upāpacayaṁ
lang: Māori
word: whakarau pūngao
lang: Māori
word: whakarautanga pūngao
lang: Māori
word: matūriaka
lang: Marathi
word: चयापचय
roman: cayāpcay
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stoffskifte
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: stoffskifte
lang: Persian
word: متابولیسم
roman: metâbolism
lang: Polish
word: metabolizm
lang: Polish
word: przemiana materii
lang: Portuguese
word: metabolismo
lang: Quechua
word: imayay yamkiy
lang: Romanian
word: metabolism
lang: Russian
word: метаболи́зм
roman: metabolízm
lang: Russian
word: обме́н веще́ств
roman: obmén veščéstv
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: metabolìzam
lang: Slovak
word: látková premena
lang: Slovene
word: presnova
lang: Slovene
word: presnavljanje
lang: Spanish
word: metabolismo
lang: Swahili
word: metaboli
lang: Swedish
word: metabolism
lang: Swedish
word: ämnesomsättning
lang: Tagalog
word: kapbisa
lang: Tajik
word: мубодилаи моддаҳо
roman: mubodila-yi moddaho
lang: Tamil
word: வளர்சிதைமாற்றம்
roman: vaḷarcitaimāṟṟam
lang: Tatar
word: алышынуы
roman: alışınuwı
lang: Telugu
word: జీవక్రియ
roman: jīvakriya
lang: Turkish
word: metabolizma
lang: Turkish
word: özgeriş
lang: Turkish
word: istiklâp
lang: Ukrainian
word: обмін речовин
roman: obmin rečovyn
lang: Ukrainian
word: метаболі́зм
roman: metabolízm
lang: Uzbek
word: moddalar almashinuvi
lang: Vietnamese
word: trao đổi chất
lang: Vietnamese
word: biến dưỡng
lang: Welsh
word: metabolaeth