repressor

== English == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ) === Noun === repressor (plural repressors) Anything that represses. (genetics) Any protein that binds to DNA and thus regulates the expression of genes by decreasing the rate of transcription. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === From reprimō + -tor. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [rɛˈprɛs.sɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [reˈprɛs.sor] === Noun === repressor m (genitive repressōris); third declension restrainer, represser limiter ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “repressor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “repressor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “repressor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.