amoeba

See also: Amoeba, amöba, and amœba

English

An amoeba.

Alternative forms

• ameba (US)
• amœba

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmiːbə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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

Derived terms

• acanthamoeba
• amoebalike
• coamoeba

 

Related terms

• amoebiasis
• amoebic dysentery

Translations

member of a genus of unicellular protozoa

• Albanian: amebë (sq) f
• Arabic: أَمِيبَا f (ʔamībā), مُتَحَوِّلَة f (mutaḥawwila)
• Armenian: ամեոբա (hy) (ameoba)
• Azerbaijani: amyöb, ameba
• Belarusian: амёба f (amjóba)
• Bengali: অ্যামিবা (bn) (êmiba)
• 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)
• Indonesian: ameba (id), amuba (id)
• 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)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: amēba f
• Lithuanian: amebos
• Macedonian: аме́ба f (améba)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Manx: amoeba m
• Maori: pūora
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: амёб (mn) (amjob), эстэй амьтан (estej amʹtan)

  Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠶᠣᠪᠠ (amyoba), ᠡᠰ ᠲᠡᠢ
  ᠠᠮᠢᠲᠠᠨ (es-tei 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
• Swahili: amiba
• 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, trùng biến hình
• Welsh: ameba m

Further reading

• amoeba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Noun

amoeba f (genitive amoebae); first declension

1. amoeba

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	amoeba	amoebae
genitive	amoebae	amoebārum
dative	amoebae	amoebīs
accusative	amoebam	amoebās
ablative	amoebā	amoebīs
vocative	amoeba	amoebae