stellai

Radestrian

Etymology

Clipping of stellýai (“archaebacterium”). Ousted the original term once archaea were considered to be their own domain to distance it from the originally hypernymic domain, bacteria.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key)/ˈstɛllai/ [ˈstɛlːai]
  • Rhyme: -ɛllai
  • Syllabification: stel–lai

Noun

stellai inan (countable, genitive singular stellaisk, nominative plural stellaire, compound form stellai-, relational adjective stellaiș)

  1. (microbiology) archaeon

Declension

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Translations

archaeon