amoeba

amoeba

See also: Amoeba, amöba, and amœba

English

An amoeba.

Alternative forms

• ameba (American)
• amœba

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ, “change”), referring to constantly changing shape of these organisms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

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• Rhymes: -iːbə

Noun

amoeba (plural amoebae or amoebas)

1. (biology) A member of the genus Amoeba of unicellular protozoa that moves by means of temporary projections called pseudopodia.
2. (mathematics) The graph of the real part of the logarithms of a polynomial equation in complex numbers.
3. (slang) An asexual.

Antonyms

• (biology) mastigote

Related terms

• amoebiasis
• amoebic dysentery

Translations

member of a genus of unicellular protozoa

Albanian: amebë (sq) f Arabic: أَمِيبَا‎ f (ʾamībā), مُتَحَوِّلَة‎‎ f (mutaḥawwila) Armenian: ամեոբա (hy) (ameoba) Azerbaijani: amyöb, ameba Belarusian: амёба f (amjóba) Bengali: অ্যামিবা (ôẏamiba) Bulgarian: аме́ба (bg) f (améba) Burmese: အမီးဗား (my) (a.mi:ba:) Catalan: ameba f Chinese: Mandarin: 變形蟲／变形虫 (zh) (biànxíngchóng), 阿米巴 (zh) (āmǐbā) Czech: améba (cs) f, měňavka (cs) f Danish: amøbe (da) c Dutch: amoebe (nl) f Esperanto: amebo (eo) Estonian: amööb Faroese: skaploysingur m, amøba f Finnish: ameba (fi) French: amibe (fr) f Galician: ameba (gl) f Georgian: ამება (ameba) German: Amöbe (de) f, Wechseltierchen (de) n Greek: αμοιβάδα (el) f (amoiváda) Hebrew: אָמֶבָּה‎ f Hindi: अमीबा (hi) m (amībā) Hungarian: amőba (hu) Icelandic: amaba f, amba f, slímdýr n Ido: amebo (io) Irish: aiméibe f Italian: ameba (it) f Japanese: アメーバ (ja) (amēba) Kazakh: амёба (ameba) Khmer: អាមីប (ʼaamiip) Korean: 아메바 (ko) (ameba) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: amîba (ku) Kyrgyz: амёба (ky) (amyoba) Latvian: amēba f Lithuanian: amebos Macedonian: аме́ба f (améba) Manx: amoeba m Maori: pūora Mongolian: Cyrillic: амёб (mn) (amjob), эстэй амьтан (estej amʹtan) Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠶᠣᠪᠠ (amyoba), ᠡᠰ ᠲᠡᠢ ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (es-tei̯ amitan) Norwegian: Bokmål: amøbe (no) m Pashto: آمېب‎ f (āméb), اميب‎ f (amíb) Persian: امیب‎ (amib) Polish: ameba (pl) f, pełzak m Portuguese: ameba (pt) f Romanian: amibă (ro) f Russian: амёба (ru) f (amjóba) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: аме́ба f Roman: améba (sh) f Slovak: améba (sk) f Slovene: ameba f Spanish: ameba (es) f Swedish: amöba (sv) c Tagalog: ameba, ameba Tajik: амеба (ameba), амёба (amyoba) Thai: อะมีบา (à-mii-bâa) Turkish: amip (tr) Turkmen: amýoba (tk) Ukrainian: аме́ба (uk) f (améba) Urdu: امیبا‎ m (amībā) Uyghur: ئامىبا‎ (amiba) Uzbek: amyoba Vietnamese: amip, a míp, a-míp Welsh: ameba m

Further reading

• amoeba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈmoe̯.ba/, [äˈmoe̯bä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈme.ba/, [äˈmɛːbä]

Noun

amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension

1. amoeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	amoeba	amoebae
Genitive	amoebae	amoebārum
Dative	amoebae	amoebīs
Accusative	amoebam	amoebās
Ablative	amoebā	amoebīs
Vocative	amoeba	amoebae