"chromatin" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkɹəʊmətɪn/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chromatin.wav [Southern-England] Forms: chromatins [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from German Chromatin, from (combining form of) Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + -ινος (-inos, “made of”). Analyzable as chromatic (“of colour”) + -in (“substance”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|de|Chromatin}} German Chromatin, {{uder|en|grc|χρῶμα||colour}} Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”), {{suffix|en|chromatic|in|gloss1=of colour|gloss2=substance}} chromatic (“of colour”) + -in (“substance”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} chromatin (countable and uncountable, plural chromatins)
  1. (biology) A complex of DNA, RNA and proteins within the cell nucleus out of which chromosomes condense during cell division. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (complex of DNA, RNA, and proteins): cromatina [feminine] (Catalan), 染色質 /染色质 (rǎnsèzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), 核染質 /核染质 (hérǎnzhì) (Chinese Mandarin), chromatine [feminine] (French), Chromatin [neuter] (German), cromatina [feminine] (Italian), クロマチン (kuromachin) (Japanese), 染色質 (senshokushitsu) (alt: せんしょくしつ) (Japanese), хроматин (xromatıyn) (Kazakh), ក្រូម៉ាទីន (kroumaatiin) (Khmer), kromatin (Malay), cromatina (Portuguese), cromatina [feminine] (Spanish), kromatin (Swedish), kulayin (Tagalog), kromatina (Tagalog)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.