ovo

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See also: óvo, ovo-, and óvó

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin ōvum (egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈovo]
  • Audio:
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  • Rhymes: -ovo
  • Hyphenation: o‧vo

Noun[edit]

ovo (accusative singular ovon, plural ovoj, accusative plural ovojn)

  1. egg

Derived terms[edit]

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ovo m (plural ovos)

  1. egg
    A galiña pón o ovo para proveito da muller.
    The hen lays the egg for the benefit of the woman.
  2. quartz stone pivot of a watermill
  3. spherical stone used as the lower pivot of the hinge of a traditional gate

Coordinate terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • ovo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • ovo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • ovo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • ovo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • ovo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Ido[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Esperanto ovoFrench œufItalian uovoSpanish huevo, from Latin ōvum (egg), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (egg).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ovo (plural ovi)

  1. egg

Italian[edit]

Noun[edit]

ovo m (plural ova f)

  1. (Tuscany, Umbria) Alternative form of uovo

References[edit]

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1132: “l'uovo; le uova” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

Latin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Onomatopoeic; compare Ancient Greek εὐάζω (euázō).

Plutarch, in the life of Marcellus, claims that the name derives from celebration involving sacrifice of a sheep.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

ovō (present infinitive ovāre, perfect active ovāvī, supine ovātum); first conjugation

  1. to exult, rejoice
    Synonyms: gaudeō, grātulor, congrātulor, exhilarō, exsultō, fruor
    Antonym: displiceō
  2. to applaud, celebrate with an ovation
Usage notes[edit]

In Classical Latin, the verb is mainly found as a present participle, ovāns.[1] The perfect stem ovāv- is attested only post-Classically.

Conjugation[edit]
   Conjugation of ovō (first conjugation)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ovō ovās ovat ovāmus ovātis ovant
imperfect ovābam ovābās ovābat ovābāmus ovābātis ovābant
future ovābō ovābis ovābit ovābimus ovābitis ovābunt
perfect ovāvī ovāvistī ovāvit ovāvimus ovāvistis ovāvērunt,
ovāvēre
pluperfect ovāveram ovāverās ovāverat ovāverāmus ovāverātis ovāverant
future perfect ovāverō ovāveris ovāverit ovāverimus ovāveritis ovāverint
passive present ovor ovāris,
ovāre
ovātur ovāmur ovāminī ovantur
imperfect ovābar ovābāris,
ovābāre
ovābātur ovābāmur ovābāminī ovābantur
future ovābor ovāberis,
ovābere
ovābitur ovābimur ovābiminī ovābuntur
perfect ovātus + present active indicative of sum
pluperfect ovātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
future perfect ovātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ovem ovēs ovet ovēmus ovētis ovent
imperfect ovārem ovārēs ovāret ovārēmus ovārētis ovārent
perfect ovāverim ovāverīs ovāverit ovāverīmus ovāverītis ovāverint
pluperfect ovāvissem ovāvissēs ovāvisset ovāvissēmus ovāvissētis ovāvissent
passive present over ovēris,
ovēre
ovētur ovēmur ovēminī oventur
imperfect ovārer ovārēris,
ovārēre
ovārētur ovārēmur ovārēminī ovārentur
perfect ovātus + present active subjunctive of sum
pluperfect ovātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present ovā ovāte
future ovātō ovātō ovātōte ovantō
passive present ovāre ovāminī
future ovātor ovātor ovantor
non-finite forms active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives ovāre ovāvisse ovātūrum esse ovārī ovātum esse ovātum īrī
participles ovāns ovātūrus ovātus ovandus
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
ovandī ovandō ovandum ovandō ovātum ovātū
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

ōvō

  1. dative/ablative singular of ōvum

References[edit]

  • ovo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ovo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ovo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
  1. ^ ouō” on page 1278 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Mountain Koiari[edit]

Noun[edit]

ovo

  1. pig

References[edit]

  • Roger and Susan Garland. Mountain Koiali - English Dictionary. Ukarumpa: SIL, Ms. 38pp. (1983).

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adverb[edit]

ovo

  1. Only used in ab ovo (ab ovo)

Related terms[edit]

Portuguese[edit]

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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ovo

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Doublet of ova.

Pronunciation[edit]

 
 

  • Hyphenation: o‧vo

Noun[edit]

ovo m (plural ovos, metaphonic)

  1. egg
  2. (colloquial) testicle
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ovo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

òvō (Cyrillic spelling о̀во̄)

  1. neuter nominative singular of ovaj
  2. neuter accusative singular of ovaj

Spanish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈobo/ [ˈo.β̞o]
  • Rhymes: -obo
  • Syllabification: o‧vo

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Latin ōvum. Doublet of huevo.

Noun[edit]

ovo m (plural ovos)

  1. (architecture) egg-shaped decoration

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

ovo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

Etymology 3[edit]

Verb[edit]

ovo

  1. Obsolete spelling of hubo

Further reading[edit]

Umbundu[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

ovo

  1. they (third-person plural pronoun)

See also[edit]

Venetian[edit]

Noun[edit]

ovo m (plural ovi or uvi)

  1. Alternative spelling of òvo (egg)