ovum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ.vəm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ.vəm/

Noun

ovum (plural ova)

  1. (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

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Japanese

Romanization

ovum

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おゔむ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of オヴム

Latin

ōva gallīnārum (hens' eggs).

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), likely a derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”) (whence also Latin avis (“bird”)). Cognates include Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión), Old Church Slavonic аице (aice), Persian خایه‎ (ḵẖāya), Old Norse egg, Old English ǣġ.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.wum/, [ˈoː.wũ]

Noun

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

  1. egg

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative ōvum ōva
genitive ōvī ōvōrum
dative ōvō ōvīs
accusative ōvum ōva
ablative ōvō ōvīs
vocative ōvum ōva

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aragonese: güego
  • Dalmatian: juf
  • English ovum
  • Esperanto: ovo
  • Franco-Provençal: uef
  • Interlingua: ovo
  • Italian: uovo
  • Lombard: öv
  • Mozarabic óbgo
  • Old French: oef, of
    • Middle French: œuf
    • Norman: oeu
    • Picard: uë
    • Walloon: oû
  • Proto-Romanian:
    • Aromanian: ou
    • Romanian: ou
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Sardinian: obu
    • Campidanese: ou
  • Sicilian: uòvu, ou, ovu
  • Venetian: óvo

References

  • ovum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ovum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ovum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • ovum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
  • ovum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Malay

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ovom]
  • Rhymes: -vom, -om

Noun

ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم, plural ovum-ovum)

  1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)
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