ab ovo
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ab ōvō (literally “from the egg”).
Pronunciation
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Adverb
ab ovo (not comparable)
- From the beginning. [from late 16th c.][1]
- Coordinate term: in medias res
- 2011, Ludwig Büchner, J. Frederick Collingwood, Force and Matter: Empirico-Philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN)
- We should be led too far, nor would it possess sufficient interest for our readers, were we, in this place specially, to discuss this important and complicated question, and to show ab ovo why this notion has been rejected.
Further reading
References
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ab ovo”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin ab ovo (literally “from the egg”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
ab ovo
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