autosome

English

Etymology

From auto- +‎ -some, from Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma, “body”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːtəsəʊm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɾəˌsoʊm/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑtəzoʊm/

Noun

autosome (plural autosomes)

1. (genetics) Any chromosome other than sex chromosomes.
   • 1906 January 5, Thos. H. Montgomery, “The terminology of aberrant chromosomes and their behavivor in certain Hemiptera”, in Science, volume 23, number 575, page 36:

     Autosoma (or autosome), the usual or non-aberrant chromosomes, called by me previously ordinary chromosomes.

   • 1908, Herbert Spencer Davis, Spermatogenesis in Acrididae and Locustidae:

     It is apparently formed by the arms of the loops becoming twisted around each other, and, as in the Acrididae, each of these arms no doubt represents a univalent autosome.

Derived terms

• autosomal

Translations

any chromosome other than sex chromosomes

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 常染色體／常染色体 (zh) (cháng rǎnsètǐ)

• Dutch: autosoom (nl) n
• Finnish: autosomi
• French: autosome (fr) m
• Italian: autosoma (it) m
• Japanese: 常染色体 (ja) (jōsenshokutai)
• Polish: autosom m
• Romanian: autozom (ro) m
• Spanish: autosoma m
• Swedish: autosom c
• Turkish: otozom (tr)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.to.zom/, /ɔ.to.zom/

Noun

autosome m (plural autosomes)

1. (genetics) autosome

Descendants

• → Romanian: autozom

Further reading

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