agglutination – English noun declension

English noun forms of agglutination

Noun: agglutination
Singularagglutination
Pluralagglutinations

Sample Sentences

  • It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens. [1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. French agglutinationbor.
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
4. Proto-Italic *ad
5. Proto-Italic *ad-
6. Latin ad-
7. Proto-Indo-European *gleyH-
8. Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥
9. Proto-Italic *gloiten
10. Latin glūten
11. Latin glūtinō
12. Latin agglūtinō
13. Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
14. Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin -iō
17. New Latin agglutinatioder.
18. English agglutination
19. Multiple origins. The oldest usage, in relation to tissues adhering or healing in medical contexts, appears in the 16th century, from French agglutination. The linguistic sense derived from this usage during the early 19th century. The sense of gluing or cementing objects together in other contexts is from New Latin agglutinatio, from Latin agglūtinō (“glue; fasten to”) + -iō (a suffix used to form nouns). Compare Spanish aglutinación (“uniting; (linguistic) agglutination”), French agglutiner (“to paste together”, verb), and German Agglutination (“(linguistic) agglutination”) and Agglutinierung (“(biological) adhering, clumping”). See: French Nouns 'agglutination', Latin Nouns 'agglūtinō', Spanish Nouns 'aglutinación', German Nouns 'Agglutination'.

Verbs referencing "agglutination"

Polish Nouns aglutynacja.