tropism

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɹəʊpɪz(ə)m/
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• General-American: /ˈtɹoʊˌpɪzəm/
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From -tropism (suffix meaning ‘growth towards; movement, turning’) (possibly based on geotropism and heliotropism), from Latin tropus + English -ism (suffix forming nouns of action, process, or result). Tropus is derived from Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “a turn; a manner, style, way; figure of speech, trope; etc.”), from τρέπω (trépō, “to turn; to divert; to rotate or change orientation”) (from Proto-Indo-European *trep- (“to turn”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns of result or abstract nouns of action). Sense 1 (“turning of an organism or part of an organism towards or away from a stimulus”) is modelled after German Tropismus.

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Arabic: انتحاء — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Armenian: տրոպիզմներ (tropizmner) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Azerbaijani: tropizm — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Bashkir: тропизм (tropizm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Basque: tropismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Bulgarian: тропи́зъм (tropízǎm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Burmese: ထရိုပီဇင်း (hta.ruipijang:) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Catalan: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Chinese Mandarin: 向性 (xiàngxìng) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Czech: tropismus — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Dutch: tropie — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Esperanto: planta moviĝo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Estonian: tropism — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Finnish: tropismi — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• French: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• German: Tropismus — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• German: Pflanzenbewegung — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Greek: τροπισμός (tropismós) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Hebrew: טרופיזם — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Hungarian: tropizmus — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Icelandic: leitni — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Ido: tropismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Indonesian: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Irish: trópacht — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Italian: tropismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Italian: trofismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Japanese: 屈性 (kussei) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Kazakh: тропизм (tropizm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Korean: 굴성 (gulseong) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Kyrgyz: тропизм (tropizm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Lithuanian: tropizmas — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Macedonian: тропи́зам (tropízam) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Malay: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Malayalam: അഭിഗതി (abhigati) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Occitan: tropisme — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Persian: گرایش — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Polish: tropizm — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Portuguese: tropismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Romanian: tropism — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Russian: тропи́зм (tropízm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Serbo-Croatian: тропѝзам — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Serbo-Croatian: tropìzam — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Spanish: tropismo — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Swedish: tropism — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Tamil: திருப்ப அசைவு (tiruppa acaivu) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Thai: การเบนของพืช — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Ukrainian: тропізм (tropizm) — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Urdu: رخیت — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Uzbek: tropizm — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Welsh: tropedd — turning of an organism or part of an organism either towards or away from a stimulus; an instance of this
• Finnish: tropismi — capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism
• Macedonian: тропи́зам (tropízam) — capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism
• Polish: tropizm — capability or tendency for a pathogen to infect a type of cell, tissue, organ, or host organism
• Finnish: tropismi — of a person: instinctive predilection or tendency
• Polish: tropizm — of a person: instinctive predilection or tendency