enzyme
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
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Hyphenation: en‧zyme
Noun
enzyme (countable and uncountable, plural enzymes)
- (biochemistry) A globular protein that catalyses a biological chemical reaction.
- Hypernym: biocatalyst
- (Christianity) leavened bread, as opposed to azyme
Derived terms
- abzyme
- adaptive enzyme
- alloenzyme
- allozyme
- angiotensin-converting enzyme
- angiotensin converting enzyme
- angiotensin converting enzyme 1
- angiotensin converting enzyme 2
- antienzyme
- antizyme
- apoenzyme
- chemzyme
- coenzyme
- cuproenzyme
- ecoenzyme
- ectoenzyme
- electroenzyme
- endoenzyme
- enzybiotic
- enzymatic
- enzyme-inducing medication
- enzyme-inhibiting medication
- enzyme inhibitor
- enzymeless
- enzymelike
- enzymic
- enzymogenesis
- enzymoimmunoassay
- enzymology
- enzymolysis
- enzymopathy
- enzymosis
- enzymuria
- exoenzyme
- flavoenzyme
- granzyme
- haloenzyme
- heteroenzyme
- holoenzyme
- isoenzyme
- isozyme
- lysozyme
- macroenzyme
- mechanoenzyme
- megaenzyme
- metalloenzyme
- molybdoenzyme
- multienzyme
- nanoenzyme
- nanozyme
- necroenzyme
- neoenzyme
- nonenzyme
- phosphoenzyme
- photoenzyme
- proenzyme
- pseudoenzyme
- restriction enzyme
- ribozyme
- selenoenzyme
- seroenzyme
- synzyme
- theozyme
- thermoenzyme
- thioenzyme
- tungstoenzyme
Translations
catalytic protein
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French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐν (en, “in”) + ζύμη (zúmē, “sourdough”).
Verb
enzyme
- inflection of enzymer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “enzyme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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