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-cyte

  1. variant of cyto- as final element in a compound word:

    leucocyte.



-cyte

combining form

  1. indicating a cell

    spermatocyte



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Word History and Origins

Origin of -cyte1

from New Latin -cyta, from Greek kutos container, body, hollow vessel

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Example Sentences

Yet notwithstanding so long a residence in the Low Countries, he describes himself as “mercer of ye cyte of London.”

Stonde vp/ take thy wyfe and thy two doughters and that that is at hande/ lest thou perish in the synne of the cyte.

And all the menchildern were circumcysed whatsoeuer went out at the gates of his cyte.

And vnto Hemor and Sichem his sonne harkened all that went out at the gate of his cyte.

Th Hemor and Sichem went vnto the gate of their cyte/ and comened with the men of their cyte saynge.

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