Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

protomitochondrion

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pro-tomi-to-chon-dri-on
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The ancestral bacterial endosymbiont from which all mitochondria are thought to be derived

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English mitochondrion English protomitochondrion From proto- + mitochondrion.

Inflected Forms

protomitochondria (plural) proto-mitochondrion (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

protomitochondrial

Questions

What does protomitochondrion mean?: The ancestral bacterial endosymbiont from which all mitochondria are thought to be derived
Where does protomitochondrion come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *per-der.? Proto-Indo-European *pér Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *próder. Ancient Greek πρό (pró) Ancient Greek -ᾰτος (-ătos) Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos) Ancient Greek πρωτο- (prōto-)lbor. English proto- English mitochondrion English protomitochondrion From proto- + mitochondrion.

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