glycine

See also: Glycine

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Hellenic *dlukús

Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s)

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ine

English glycine

From Ancient Greek γλῠκῠ́ς (glŭkŭ́s, “sweet”) + English -ine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡlaɪˌsin/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

glycine (countable and uncountable, plural glycines)

1. (biochemistry) A nonessential amino acid, amino-acetic acid, C₂H₅NO₂ found in most proteins but especially in sugar cane; the simplest amino acid.

Synonyms

• aminoacetic acid (IUPAC name)
• E640 (when used as a flavour enhancer)
• Gly (as a monomer in proteins)

Derived terms

• alkylglycine
• allylglycine
• cefaloglycin
• choloylglycine
• cholylglycine
• decaglycine
• dehydroglycine
• diglycine
• dimethylglycine
• glycinal
• glycinamide
• glycinate
• glycinemia
• glycinergic
• glycyl
• glycylglycine
• glyphosate
• homoallylglycine
• homopropargylglycine
• insulin glargine
• oligoglycine
• oxalylglycine
• pentaglycine
• polyglycine
• propargylglycine
• tetraglycine
• thioglycine
• tricine
• triglycine
• trimethylglycine

Translations

amino acid

• Bulgarian: глицин m (glicin)
• Catalan: glicina (ca) f, glicina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甘氨酸 (zh) (gān'ānsuān) (chiefly Mainland China), 氨基乙酸 (zh) (ānjīyǐsuān) (chiefly Mainland China), 胺基乙酸 (zh) (ànjīyǐsuān, ānjīyǐsuān) (Taiwan)

• Danish: glycin
• Esperanto: glicino
• Finnish: glysiini
• French: glycine (fr) f
• German: Glycin (de) n
• Hungarian: glicin (hu)
• Ido: glicino (io)
• Japanese: グリシン (gurishin)
• Kazakh: глицин (glisin)
• Māori: kairīni
• Persian: گلیسین (gelisin)
• Polish: glicyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: glicina f
• Romanian: glicină (ro) f
• Slovak: glycín m
• Spanish: glicina (es) f
• Swedish: glycin (sv)
• Turkish: glisin
• Ukrainian: гліци́н m (hlicýn)

References

• glycine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡli.sin/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek γλυκύς (glukús) +‎ -ine.

Noun

glycine f (plural glycines)

1. (botany) wisteria

Derived terms

• glycine de Chine
• glycine du Japon
• glycine floribonde
• glycine tubéreuse

Descendants

• → Romanian: glicină

Etymology 2

Noun

glycine f (plural glycines)

1. (biochemistry) glycine

   Synonym: glycocolle

Further reading

• “glycine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “glycine”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “glycine”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “glycine” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “glycine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012