codon

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊdɒn/
• Hyphenation: co‧don

From Latin codon, from Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

codon (plural codons)

1. A handbell used for summoning monks.[1][2]
2. The "bell" or flaring mouth of a trumpet.[3]

From code +‎ -on.

codon (plural codons)

1. (biochemistry) A sequence of three adjacent nucleotides, which encode for a specific amino acid during protein synthesis or translation.

• anticodon
• dicodon
• homocodon
• stop codon
• start codon
• tricodon

• nucleotide

• Condo, Condo., condo, no-doc

From English

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.dɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -dɔ̃

codon m (plural codons)

1. (biochemistry) codon

• condo

From Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

codon

1. codon: a handbell used for summoning monks.

• codon in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• codon in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• codon in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin