ovarium

See also: Ovarium

English

Etymology

New Latin. Doublet of ovary.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ə(ʊ)ˈvɛːrɪəm/

Noun

ovarium (plural ovaria)

1. An ovary.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ovarium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōvārium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ovaˈriʊm/
• Rhymes: -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: ova‧ri‧um

Noun

ovarium (plural ovarium-ovarium, first-person possessive ovariumku, second-person possessive ovariummu, third-person possessive ovariumnya)

1. (anatomy) ovary: A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova and in mammals secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.

Alternative forms

• اوۏاري‎ (ovari) (Standard Malay)

Synonyms

• indung telur

Further reading

• “ovarium” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From ōvum (“egg”) +‎ -ārium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oːˈu̯aː.ri.um/, [oːˈu̯äːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈva.ri.um/, [oˈväːrium]

Noun

ōvārium n (genitive ōvāriī or ōvārī); second declension

1. (anatomy) ovary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ōvārium	ōvāria
Genitive	ōvāriī ōvārī1	ōvāriōrum
Dative	ōvāriō	ōvāriīs
Accusative	ōvārium	ōvāria
Ablative	ōvāriō	ōvāriīs
Vocative	ōvārium	ōvāria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• → English: ovary
• → French: ovaire
• → German: Ovarium
• → Indonesian: ovarium
• → Portuguese: ovário
• → Spanish: ovario

References

• ovarium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ovarium n (definite singular ovariet, indefinite plural ovarier, definite plural ovaria or ovariene)

1. (anatomy) ovary

   Synonym: eggstokk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ovarium n (definite singular ovariet, indefinite plural ovarium, definite plural ovaria)

1. (anatomy) ovary

   Synonym: eggstokk

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Swedish

Noun

ovarium

1. ovary

   Synonym: äggstock

   Hypernym: könskörtel

Further reading

• ovarium in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)