enzyme

See also: Enzyme and enzymé

English

Etymology

From German Enzym, coined 1878 by the German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne from Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) +‎ ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛn.zaɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

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• Hyphenation: en‧zyme

Noun

enzyme (countable and uncountable, plural enzymes)

1. (biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.

   Hypernym: biocatalyst

2. (Christianity) leavened bread, as opposed to azyme

Derived terms

• adaptive enzyme
• allozyme
• angiotensin-converting enzyme
• angiotensin converting enzyme
• angiotensin converting enzyme 1
• angiotensin converting enzyme 2
• apoenzyme
• coenzyme
• enzyme-inducing medication
• enzyme-inhibiting medication
• enzyme inhibitor
• haloenzyme
• holoenzyme
• isozyme
• nonenzyme
• restriction enzyme
• ribozyme

 

Related terms

• zymase
• zymo-
• zymogen
• zymogenic
• zymogram

 

Translations

catalytic protein

• Afrikaans: ensiem
• Arabic: انزيم ?
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: entzima
• Bulgarian: ензим (bg) m (enzim)
• Burmese: အင်ဇိုင်း (angjuing:)
• Catalan: enzim (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 酶 (mui⁴), 酵素 (gaau³ sou³, haau¹ sou³) (dated)

  Hokkien: 酵素 (zh-min-nan) (kàⁿ-sò͘)

  Mandarin: 酶 (zh) (méi), 酵素 (zh) (jiàosù) (dated)

• Czech: enzym (cs) m
• Danish: enzym (da) n
• Dutch: enzym (nl) n
• Esperanto: enzimo
• Finnish: entsyymi (fi)
• French: enzyme (fr) m or f
• Galician: enzima (gl) f
• German: Enzym (de) n
• Greek: ένζυμο (el) n (énzymo)
• Gujarati: ઉત્સેચક ? (utsecak)
• Hebrew: אנזים (he) m
• Hungarian: enzim (hu)
• Icelandic: ensím (is) n
• Indonesian: enzim (id)
• Irish: einsím f
• Italian: enzima (it) ?
• Japanese: 酵素 (ja) (こうそ, kōso)
• Kazakh: фермент (ferment)
• Khmer: អង់ស៊ីម (ʼɑngsiim)
• Korean: 효소(酵素) (ko) (hyoso)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: enzîm f

• Latvian: enzīms m
• Lithuanian: fermentas m, enzimas m
• Malay: enzim (ms)
• Maori: pūmua whākōkī, whākōkī
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enzym (no) n

  Nynorsk: enzym n

• Persian: آنزیم (fa) (ânzim)
• Polish: enzym (pl) m
• Portuguese: enzima (pt) f
• Russian: ферме́нт (ru) m (fermént), энзи́м (ru) m (enzím)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ензим m

  Roman: enzim m

• Somali: ensiim (so)
• Spanish: enzima (es) f
• Swedish: enzym (sv) n
• Thai: เอนไซม์ (th) (en-saai)
• Turkish: enzim (tr)
• Ukrainian: ферме́нт (uk) m (fermént)
• Vietnamese: enzim, men tiêu hoá

Further reading

• enzyme on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) +‎ ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).

Noun

enzyme m or f (plural enzymes)

1. (biochemistry) enzyme

Verb

enzyme

1. inflection of enzymer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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