See cyte on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "κῠ́τος",
"4": "",
"5": "hollow”, “vessel"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cytes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cyte (plural cytes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Biology",
"orig": "en:Biology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "94 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "89 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "92 8",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1",
"text": "The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)."
],
"id": "en-cyte-en-noun-IWanIzs9",
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"cell",
"cell#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "cell"
}
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/saɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sʌɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɪt"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cytes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cyte (plural cytes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "city"
}
],
"attestations": [
{
"date": "13th—16th c.",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of city."
],
"id": "en-cyte-en-noun-L6iGRuNn",
"links": [
[
"city",
"city#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "cyte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Albanian entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "cyt"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular aorist of cyt"
],
"id": "en-cyte-sq-verb-t4KPPcW4",
"links": [
[
"cyt",
"cyt#Albanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"aorist",
"form-of",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡sytɛ/"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"var": "1"
},
"expansion": "cyte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "cite"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of cite"
],
"id": "en-cyte-enm-noun-~Iz4yodw",
"links": [
[
"cite",
"cite#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "chete"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gewd-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*kautijā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kautijā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kautijǭ",
"t": "hut, cottage"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gewd-",
"t": "to stretch, curve, vault"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "For earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).\nRelated to cote, though the exact details are unclear.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ċȳte",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-decl-noun-n-f",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳte",
"links": [
[
"ċȳte",
"cyte#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtena",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtena",
"cytena#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtum",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtum",
"cytum#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċēte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "ċȳte"
},
"expansion": "ċȳte f",
"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ċȳt"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-n-f"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ċȳte",
"2": "ċȳtan",
"3": "ċȳtan",
"4": "ċȳtan",
"5": "ċȳtan",
"6": "ċȳtena",
"7": "ċȳtan",
"8": "ċȳtum",
"num": "",
"title": "",
"type": "weak n-stem"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ang",
"name": "Buildings and structures",
"orig": "ang:Buildings and structures",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"hut, cabin"
],
"id": "en-cyte-ang-noun-Wb38Crkv",
"links": [
[
"hut",
"hut"
],
[
"cabin",
"cabin"
],
[
"Joseph Bosworth",
"w:Joseph Bosworth"
],
[
"T. Northcote Toller",
"w:T. Northcote Toller"
],
[
"An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary",
"w:An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary"
],
[
"Oxford University Press",
"w:Oxford University Press"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) hut, cabin"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃyː.te/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-yː.te"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "sq",
"2": "verb form"
},
"expansion": "cyte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Albanian",
"lang_code": "sq",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Albanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Albanian non-lemma forms",
"Albanian verb forms",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "cyt"
}
],
"glosses": [
"second-person singular aorist of cyt"
],
"links": [
[
"cyt",
"cyt#Albanian"
]
],
"tags": [
"aorist",
"form-of",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡sytɛ/"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aɪt",
"Rhymes:English/aɪt/1 syllable",
"Rhymes:English/ʌɪt",
"Rhymes:English/ʌɪt/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": "1",
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "κῠ́τος",
"4": "",
"5": "hollow”, “vessel"
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”)",
"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῠ́τος (kŭ́tos, “hollow”, “vessel”); compare -cyte.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cytes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cyte (plural cytes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with rare senses",
"en:Biology"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1874 August, Louis Elsberg, «Regeneration, or the Preservation of Organic Molecules: A Contribution to the Doctrine of Evolution» in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: Twenty-third meeting, held at Hartford, Conn., August, 1874, ed. Frederic Ward Putnam (1875), part II, § B: “Natural History”, field iv: ‘Zoology’, page 90, footnote 1",
"text": "The low form elements devoid of a nucleus were in 1866 by Hæckel (Generelle Morphologie der Organismen 1866, vol. 1, p. 270) called cytodes (cell like) to distinguish them from cytes or cells.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)."
],
"links": [
[
"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"cell",
"cell#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(biology, rare) Synonym of cell (“quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane”)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"extra": "quantity of protoplasm, containing a nucleus, enclosed within a cell membrane",
"tags": [
"synonym",
"synonym-of"
],
"word": "cell"
}
],
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"topics": [
"biology",
"natural-sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/saɪt/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/sʌɪt/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌɪt"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_number": "2",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cytes",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cyte (plural cytes)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "city"
}
],
"attestations": [
{
"date": "13th—16th c.",
"references": []
}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms"
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of city."
],
"links": [
[
"city",
"city#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"var": "1"
},
"expansion": "cyte",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "cite"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English variant lemmas",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of cite"
],
"links": [
[
"cite",
"cite#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"word": "chete"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gewd-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*kautijā"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *kautijā",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*kautijǭ",
"t": "hut, cottage"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*gewd-",
"t": "to stretch, curve, vault"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”)",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "For earlier *ċīete, from Proto-West Germanic *kautijā, from Proto-Germanic *kautijǭ (“hut, cottage”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewd- (“to stretch, curve, vault”).\nRelated to cote, though the exact details are unclear.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "ċȳte",
"tags": [
"canonical",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ang-decl-noun-n-f",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳte",
"links": [
[
"ċȳte",
"cyte#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtena",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtena",
"cytena#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtan",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtan",
"cytan#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ċȳtum",
"links": [
[
"ċȳtum",
"cytum#Old_English"
]
],
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ċēte",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "f",
"head": "ċȳte"
},
"expansion": "ċȳte f",
"name": "ang-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ċȳt"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun-n-f"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ċȳte",
"2": "ċȳtan",
"3": "ċȳtan",
"4": "ċȳtan",
"5": "ċȳtan",
"6": "ċȳtena",
"7": "ċȳtan",
"8": "ċȳtum",
"num": "",
"title": "",
"type": "weak n-stem"
},
"name": "ang-decl-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English feminine n-stem nouns",
"Old English feminine nouns",
"Old English lemmas",
"Old English nouns",
"Old English rare terms",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gewd-",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old English/yː.te",
"Rhymes:Old English/yː.te/2 syllables",
"ang:Buildings and structures"
],
"glosses": [
"hut, cabin"
],
"links": [
[
"hut",
"hut"
],
[
"cabin",
"cabin"
],
[
"Joseph Bosworth",
"w:Joseph Bosworth"
],
[
"T. Northcote Toller",
"w:T. Northcote Toller"
],
[
"An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary",
"w:An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary"
],
[
"Oxford University Press",
"w:Oxford University Press"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) hut, cabin"
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃyː.te/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-yː.te"
}
],
"word": "cyte"
}
Download raw JSONL data for cyte meaning in All languages combined (7.7kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). 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.