colágeno

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈla.ʒe.nu/

• (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)

1. (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)

1. collagenic

Noun

colágeno m (plural colágenos)

1. (biochemistry) collagen

Further reading

• “colágeno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28