ovum

English

Etymology

Borrowing 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.

Synonyms

• megagamete

Hypernyms

• gamete

Coordinate terms

• spermatozoon

Related terms

Related terms

• oval

• Ovaltine

• ovary

• ovate

• oviparous

• ovoid

• ovo-lacto-vegetarian

• ovulate

Translations

gamete

• Armenian: ձվաբջիջ (jvabǰiǰ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卵子 (zh) (luǎnzǐ)

• Czech: vajíčko (cs) n
• Finnish: munasolu (fi)
• French: ovule (fr) m
• German: Eizelle (de) f, Ovum n
• Hebrew: ביצית (he) f (beitsit)
• Hungarian: pete (hu)
• Icelandic: eggfruma f, egg (is) n
• Japanese: 卵 (ja) (らん, ran), 卵子 (らんし, ranshi)
• Korean: 난자 (ko) (nanja) (卵子 (ko))

• Malay:

  Rumi: ovum

  Jawi: اوۏوم

• Marathi: अंड (aṇḍ), अंडकोश (aṇḍkoś)
• Portuguese: óvulo (pt)
• Russian: яйцекле́тка (ru) f (jajceklétka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јајашце n

  Roman: jajašce n

• Swedish: äggcell (sv) c
• Turkish: yumurta (tr), yumurta hücresi
• Vietnamese: trứng (vi)

See also

• oocyte

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Latin

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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 аицє (aice), Persian خایه (ḵẖāya), Old Norse egg (Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, English egg) and Old English ǣġ (obsolete English ey).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.wum/

Noun

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

Inflection

Second declension neuter.

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

Derived terms

• ōvātus
• ōvicō
• ōviparus

Descendants

Aragonese: güego Aromanian: ou Asturian: güevu Campidanese Sardinian: ou Catalan: ou Dalmatian: juf English ovum Esperanto: ovo

Franco-Provençal: uef French: œuf Friulian: ûf, ûv Galician: ovo Ido: ovo Interlingua: ovo Italian: uovo Occitan: ueu, uòu

Portuguese: ovo Romanian: ou Romansch: ov Sardinian: obu Sicilian: uòvu, ou, ovu Spanish: huevo Venetian: óvo Walloon: oû

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Malay

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Etymology

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

Alternative forms

• اوۏوم

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم, plural ovum-ovum)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)