The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromγαμετή“wife”
- English todaygamete
From Ancient Greek γαμετή (gametḗ, “wife”), γαμέτης (gamétēs, “husband”), ultimately from γάμος (gámos, “marriage”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
gamete
Today it means: A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes. Full definition →
Ancient Greek γαμετή