Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tetraspan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tetraspan
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρες (téssăres) Ancient Greek τετρᾰ- (tetră-)bor. English tetra- Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-der. Proto-Germanic *spannō Old English spann Middle English spanne English span English tetraspan From tetra- + span.

Inflected Forms

tetraspans (plural)

Questions

What does tetraspan mean?: Any of a family of membrane glycoproteins whose multimolecular complexes have four transmembrane domains
Where does tetraspan come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres Proto-Hellenic *kʷétwores Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρες (téssăres) Ancient Greek τετρᾰ- (tetră-)bor. English tetra- Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend-der. Proto-Germanic *spannō Old English spann Middle English spanne English span English tetraspan From tetra- + span.

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