zygote

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzaɪɡəʊt/
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• General-American: /ˈzaɪˌɡoʊt/
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• CMU ARPABET: Z AY1 G OW0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ζῠγωτός (zŭgōtós, “yoked”) + English -ote (suffix meaning ‘having [the thing to which it is attached]’). Ζῠγωτός (Zŭgōtós) is derived from ζῠγόω (zŭgóō, “to join or yoke together”) + -τός (-tós, suffix forming adjectives of possibility); and ζῠγόω (zŭgóō) from ζῠγόν (zŭgón, “yoke for joining animals; anything which joins two things together”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yewg- (“to tie together, join, yoke”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming causative or factitive verbs). By surface analysis, zygo- + -ote.

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sigoot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Albanian: zigota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Arabic: زىجوت (zijut) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Aragonese: zigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Armenian: զիգոտ (zigot) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Asturian: cigotu — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Azerbaijani: ziqot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Basque: zigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Belarusian: зігота (zihóta) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Bengali: জাইগোট (jaigōṭ) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Bulgarian: зиго́та (zigóta) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Catalan: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Chinese Mandarin: 合子 (hézǐ) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Chinese Mandarin: 受精卵 (shòujīngluǎn) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Czech: zygota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Danish: zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Dutch: zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Estonian: sügoot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Finnish: tsygootti — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Finnish: hedelmöitynyt munasolu — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• French: zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Galician: cigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Georgian: ზიგოტა (zigoṭa) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• German: Zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Greek: ζυγωτό (zygotó) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Hebrew: זִיגוֹטָה (zigóta) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Hindi: युग्मनज (yugmanaj) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Hungarian: zigóta — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Icelandic: okfruma — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Ido: zigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Indonesian: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Irish: siogót — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Italian: zigote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Japanese: 接合子 (setsugōshi) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Kashubian: zygòta — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Kazakh: зигота (zigota) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Kazakh: ұрықтанған жасуша (ūryqtanğan jasuşa) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Korean: 접합자 (jeophapja) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Northern Kurdish: zîgot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Kyrgyz: зигота (zigota) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Latin: zygotum — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Latvian: zigota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Lithuanian: zigota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Macedonian: зигот (zigot) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Macedonian: зигоцит (zigocit) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Madurese: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Malay: زيݢوت — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Malay: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Malayalam: സിക്താണ്ഡം (siktāṇḍaṁ) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Māori: pūtau hua — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Minangkabau: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Norwegian Bokmål: zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Norwegian Nynorsk: zygote — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Occitan: zigòt — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Oromo: miciraa — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Persian: زیگوت — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Polish: zygota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Portuguese: zigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Romanian: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Russian: зиго́та (zigóta) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Serbo-Croatian: зиго̀та — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Serbo-Croatian: zigòta — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Sindhi: ڳڀيل بيضو (g̠bhel beẓo) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Slovak: zygota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Slovene: zigota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Spanish: zigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Spanish: cigoto — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Sundanese: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Swedish: zygot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Tagalog: punlog — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Tajik: зигота (zigota) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Tamil: கருவணு (karuvaṇu) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Tamil: நுகம் (nukam) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Telugu: సంయుక్తబీజము (saṁyuktabījamu) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Thai: ไซโกต — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Turkish: zigot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Ukrainian: зиго́та (zyhóta) — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Urdu: لاقحہ — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Uzbek: zigota — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Vietnamese: hợp tử — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process
• Welsh: sygot — eukaryotic cell formed from the fusion of two gametes during a fertilization process