neoteny
English
/niˈɒtəni/, /niˈɑːtəni/
noun
Definitions
- (biology) The retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
- (biology) The sexual maturity of an organism still in its larval stage.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Neotenie derived from Ancient Greek νέος (new, young).
Origin
Ancient Greek
νέος
Gloss
new, young
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
新
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- neotenic English
- neotenin English
- neotenous English
- neotenously English
- feles Latin
- Neotenie German
- neón Spanish, Castilian
- Νέαρχος Ancient Greek
- Νεάπολις Ancient Greek
- Νεοκλῆς Ancient Greek
- Νεοπτόλεμος Ancient Greek
- Νεόφρων Ancient Greek
- νέος Ancient Greek
- νεοδαμώδης Ancient Greek
- νεότας Ancient Greek
- νεότης Ancient Greek
- νουμήνιος Ancient Greek
- neo- Norwegian Bokmål
- ネオテニー Japanese
- neo- Norwegian Nynorsk
- νέος Greek (modern)
- neo- Translingual
- neodīms Latvian
- νεόφυτος grc-koi
- *néwos Proto-Hellenic