oviparus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm

Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om

Latin ōvum

Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.

Proto-Italic *parjō

Latin pariō

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *-os

Proto-Italic *-os

Archaic Latin -os

Latin -us

Latin ōviparus

From ōvum (“egg”) + pariō (“to bear [offspring]”) + -us (suffix forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oːˈwɪ.pa.rʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈviː.pa.rus]

Adjective

ōviparus (feminine ōvipara, neuter ōviparum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (Late Latin) oviparous, egglaying

   Coordinate term: vīviparus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ōviparus	ōvipara	ōviparum		ōviparī	ōviparae	ōvipara
genitive	ōviparī	ōviparae	ōviparī		ōviparōrum	ōviparārum	ōviparōrum
dative	ōviparō	ōviparae	ōviparō		ōviparīs
accusative	ōviparum	ōviparam	ōviparum		ōviparōs	ōviparās	ōvipara
ablative	ōviparō	ōviparā	ōviparō		ōviparīs
vocative	ōvipare	ōvipara	ōviparum		ōviparī	ōviparae	ōvipara

Descendants

• → Catalan: ovípar (learned)
• → English: oviparous (learned)
• → French: ovipare (learned)
• → Italian: oviparo (learned)
• → Portuguese: ovíparo (learned)
• → Sicilian: uvìparu (learned)
• → Spanish: ovíparo (learned)

Further reading

• “oviparus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oviparus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.