English
cyte
Cyte comes from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος ‘hollow”, “vessel’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκῠ́τοςkŭ́tos‘hollow”, “vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1874cyte
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEκῠ́τοςkŭ́tos‘hollow”, “vessel’
- Englishearliest quotation 1874cyte
Earliest quotation: 1874, Louis Elsberg, Natural History: “The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- ‘cover, skin’
Today it means
noun Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek κῠ́τος / cyte