Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
prefix
synapse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
synapsis
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Topics: biology, cytology, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱómder.? Proto-Indo-European *sem-der.? Proto-Hellenic *ksún Ancient Greek σύν (sún) Ancient Greek συν- (sun-) Proto-Hellenic *áptō Ancient Greek ἅπτω (háptō) Ancient Greek σῠνᾰ́πτω (sŭnắptō)bor. English synapto- Borrowed from Ancient Greek σῠνᾰ́πτω (sŭnắptō, “to conjoin, to connect”).
