different between paramecium vs animalcule

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (param?k?s, “oval”), from ????? (mêkos, “length”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pæ.???mi?.si.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?.???mi.si.?m/
• Hyphenation: par?a?me?ci?um

Noun

paramecium (plural paramecia or parameciums)

1. An oval-shaped protozoan organism of the genus Paramecium.

Synonyms

• slipper animalcule

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pa.ra?me.ki.um/, [pä?ä?m?ki???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pa.ra?me.t??i.um/, [p????m??t??ium]

Noun

paramecium n (genitive parameci? or paramec?); second declension

1. paramecium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

English

Etymology

From Late Latin animalculum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn??mælkju?l/

Noun

animalcule (plural animalcules)

1. (obsolete) A small animal. [16th-20th c.]
2. A microscopic aquatic animal or protozoan. [from 17th c.]
3. (now historical) A spermatozoon. [from 17th c.]
   • 2001, David M Friedman, A Mind of its Own, Robert Hale 2009, p. 60:

     Inside the animalcules in the thickest part of the semen he saw ‘all manner of great and small vessels […].’

Synonyms

• animalculum

Hyponyms

• eye animalcule
• globe animalcule
• rotifer or wheel animalcule
• paramecium or slipper animalcule
• stentor or trumpet animalcule
• peritrich or bell animalcule
• heliozoa or sun animalcule
• amoeba or proteus animalcule
• vegetalcule

Translations

French

Noun

animalcule m (plural animalcules)

1. animalcule