axon

See also: Axon, axón, and àxon

English

Alternative forms

• axone (dated)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs-der.

Proto-Hellenic *aksōn

Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn)der.

English axon

Derived from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”). Via Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- cognate with inherited English axle and other borrowed axis, aisle, ala, atelier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæksɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

axon (plural axons)

1. (cytology) A nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse.

Hypernyms

• (nerve fibre): neuronal process, neurite, nerve fibre

Derived terms

• axipetal
• axogenesis
• axonal
• axon hillock
• axonic
• axonless
• axonocentric
• axonogenesis
• axonography
• axonopathy
• axonotrophic
• axonotrophy
• axopetal
• axotomize
• axotomy
• diaxon
• mesaxon
• monaxon
• monoaxon
• motoraxon
• pioneer axon
• triaxon

Translations

a nerve fibre

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: аксон m (akson)
• Catalan: àxon (ca) m, axó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軸突 / 轴突 (zh) (zhóutū)

• Czech: axon m
• Dutch: axon (nl) n
• Finnish: aksoni (fi), viejähaarake
• French: axone (fr) m
• German: Axon (de) n
• Greek: άξων (el) m (áxon)
• Hindi: अक्षतंतु (hi) m (akṣatantu)
• Hungarian: axon (hu)
• Indonesian: akson (id)
• Irish: néarshnáithín m, acsón m
• Italian: assone (it) m
• Japanese: 軸索 (ja) (じくさく, jikusaku)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tewere (ku) m, rîşaledemar

• Malay: akson
• Marathi: अक्षतंतु m (akṣatantu)
• Polish: akson (pl) m, neuryt m
• Portuguese:

  Brazilian Portuguese: axônio m

  European Portuguese: axónio m

• Romanian: axon (ro) m
• Russian: аксо́н (ru) m (aksón)
• Spanish: axón (es) m, cilindroeje m, neurita f
• Swedish: axon (sv) n, nervfiber (sv) ?
• Tagalog: sulid ng dagandam
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: akson (tr)
• Vietnamese: sợi trục

See also

• dendrite
• neurite
• neuron
• synapse

Anagrams

• noxa

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈakson]

Noun

axon m inan

1. axon

Declension

Declension of axon (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	axon	axony
genitive	axonu	axonů
dative	axonu	axonům
accusative	axon	axony
vocative	axone	axony
locative	axonu	axonech
instrumental	axonem	axony

Further reading

• “axon”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Hungarian

Etymology

From scientific Latin axon, from Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒkson]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: axon
• Syllabification: a‧xon

Noun

axon (plural axonok)

1. (cytology) axon (a nerve fibre which is a long slender projection of a nerve cell, and which conducts nerve impulses away from the body of the cell to a synapse)

   Synonym: tengelyfonál

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	axon	axonok
accusative	axont	axonokat
dative	axonnak	axonoknak
instrumental	axonnal	axonokkal
causal-final	axonért	axonokért
translative	axonná	axonokká
terminative	axonig	axonokig
essive-formal	axonként	axonokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	axonban	axonokban
superessive	axonon	axonokon
adessive	axonnál	axonoknál
illative	axonba	axonokba
sublative	axonra	axonokra
allative	axonhoz	axonokhoz
elative	axonból	axonokból
delative	axonról	axonokról
ablative	axontól	axonoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	axoné	axonoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	axonéi	axonokéi

Possessive forms of axon

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	axonom	axonjaim
2nd person sing.	axonod	axonjaid
3rd person sing.	axonja	axonjai
1st person plural	axonunk	axonjaink
2nd person plural	axonotok	axonjaitok
3rd person plural	axonjuk	axonjaik

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈak.soːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈak.son]

Noun

axōn m (genitive axonis); third declension

1. a line on a sundial (or its axis)
2. the axis of a ballista

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	axōn	axonēs
genitive	axonis	axonum
dative	axonī	axonibus
accusative	axonem	axonēs
ablative	axone	axonibus
vocative	axōn	axonēs

References

• “axon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “axon”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “axon”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French axone.

Noun

axon m (plural axoni)

1. axon

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	axon	axonul	axoni	axonii
genitive-dative	axon	axonului	axoni	axonilor
vocative	axonule		axonilor