colágeno

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈla.ʒe.nu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈla.ʒe.no/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈla.ʒɨ.nu/

Hyphenation: co‧lá‧ge‧no

Noun

colágeno m (plural colágenos)

(biochemistry) collagen (glycoprotein that forms elongated fibres)
Synonym: colagénio

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French collagène, from Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) and -geno.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /koˈlaxeno/ [koˈla.xe.no]
Rhymes: -axeno
Syllabification: co‧lá‧ge‧no

Adjective

colágeno (feminine colágena, masculine plural colágenos, feminine plural colágenas)

collagenic

Noun

colágeno m (plural colágenos)

(biochemistry) collagen

Further reading

“colágeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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