autotroph
German, adjective
autotroph is a German adjective meaning “autotrophic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Autotroph is a different word: “autotroph”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “anorganische Stoffe aufnehmend und in für sich überlebenswichtige Substanzen umwandelnd”.
What does autotroph mean in English?
adjective
- 1
autotrophic
noun
- 1
masculinerareautotroph
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. anorganische Stoffe aufnehmend und in für sich überlebenswichtige Substanzen umwandelnd
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of autotroph
- autotropher masculine nominative singular
- autotrophe feminine nominative singular
- autotrophes neuter nominative singular
- autotrophen genitive masculine singular
- autotrophem dative masculine singular
- der autotrophe definite includes-article masculine
- die autotrophe definite feminine includes-article
- das autotrophe definite includes-article neuter
- die autotrophen definite includes-article nominative
- des autotrophen definite genitive includes-article
- der autotrophen definite feminine genitive
- dem autotrophen dative definite includes-article
- den autotrophen dative definite includes-article
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to autotroph
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is autotroph in German?
autotroph appears about once in every 79 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).