hormonal

English

Etymology

From hormone +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹˈmoʊnəl/

Adjective

hormonal (comparative more hormonal, superlative most hormonal)

1. (biochemistry) Pertaining to hormones.
2. (colloquial) Of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle.
3. Strongly affected by one's hormones.

   a hormonal teenage boy

   • 1984 February 4, Vincent F. Luti, “Mouths Open, Only Singing”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 5:

     All those male bodies and loud, virile male hormonal voices.

Derived terms

• allohormonal
• antihormonal
• bihormonal
• chemohormonal
• ectohormonal
• hormonally
• hyperhormonal
• multihormonal
• neurohormonal
• nonhormonal
• parahormonal
• phytohormonal
• plurihormonal
• polyhormonal
• unihormonal
• xenohormonal

Translations

pertaining to hormones

• Asturian: hormonal
• Belarusian: гармана́льны (harmanálʹny)
• Catalan: hormonal (ca)
• Czech: hormonální (cs)
• Danish: hormonal
• Dutch: hormonaal (nl)
• Finnish: hormonaalinen (fi)
• French: hormonal (fr)
• Galician: hormonal (gl)
• German: hormonal
• Hungarian: hormonális (hu)
• Irish: hormónach
• Italian: ormonale (it)
• Kazakh: гормондық (gormondyq)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hormonell

  Nynorsk: hormonell

• Polish: hormonalny (pl)
• Portuguese: hormonal (pt)
• Russian: гормона́льный (ru) (gormonálʹnyj)
• Spanish: hormonal (es)
• Swedish: hormonell (sv)
• Ukrainian: гормона́льний (hormonálʹnyj)

of or pertaining to the menstrual cycle

• Dutch: hormonaal (nl)

strongly affected by one's hormones

• Swedish: hormonstinn

French

Adjective

hormonal (feminine hormonale, masculine plural hormonaux, feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

Further reading

• “hormonal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Adjective

hormonal (not comparable)

1. hormonal

Related terms

• hormon
• hormonic

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oɦ.moˈnaʊ̯]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oɦ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /oɾ.moˈnaw/ [oɾ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /oʁ.moˈnaw/ [oʁ.moˈnaʊ̯]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oɻ.moˈnaw/ [oɻ.moˈnaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈnal/ [ɔɾ.muˈnaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈnal/ [ɔɾ.muˈnaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔɾ.muˈna.li/

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: hor‧mo‧nal

Adjective

hormonal m or f (plural hormonais)

1. hormonal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hormonal. By surface analysis, hormon +‎ -al.

Adjective

hormonal m or n (feminine singular hormonală, masculine plural hormonali, feminine and neuter plural hormonale)

1. hormonal

Declension

Declension of hormonal

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	hormonal		hormonală		hormonali	hormonale
	definite	hormonalul		hormonala		hormonalii	hormonalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	hormonal		hormonale		hormonali	hormonale
	definite	hormonalului		hormonalei		hormonalilor	hormonalelor

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oɾmoˈnal/ [oɾ.moˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: hor‧mo‧nal

Adjective

hormonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural hormonales)

1. hormonal

Derived terms

• hormonalmente

Related terms

• hormona f

Further reading

• “hormonal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10