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 (hy) ‎(jvabǰiǰ)
• Catalan: òvul
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卵子 (zh) ‎(luǎnzǐ)

• Czech: vajíčko (cs) n
• Danish: ægcelle
• Dutch: eicel (nl)
• 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
• Irish: ubhán m
• Italian: ovulo (it)
• Japanese: 卵 (ja) ‎(らん, ran), 卵子 (ja) ‎(らんし, ranshi)

• Korean: 난자 (ko) ‎(nanja) (卵子 (ko))
• Malay:

  Rumi: ovum

  Jawi: اوۏوم

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

  Cyrillic: јајашце n

  Roman: jajašce (sh) n

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

See also

• oocyte

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Latin

Wikipedia ^la

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.

Case	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 Dalmatian: juf English ovum Esperanto: ovo Ido: ovo Franco-Provençal: uef Interlingua: ovo Italian: uovo Lombard: öv Mozarabic óbgo Old French: oef, of Middle French: œuf French: œuf Norman: oeu Picard: uë Walloon: oû

Old Leonese: Asturian: güevu Leonese: guevu Mirandese: uobo Old Portuguese: ovo Galician: ovo Portuguese: ovo, ova Old Provençal: Catalan: ou Occitan: ueu, uòu Old Spanish: hueuo, ueuo Ladino: guevo Spanish: huevo, hueva Papiamentu: webu

Proto-Romanian: Aromanian: ou Romanian: ou Rhaeto-Romance: Friulian: ûf, ûv Romansch: ov, öv, iev Sardinian: obu Campidanese: ou Sicilian: uòvu, ou, ovu Venetian: óvo

References

• ovum in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ovum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• OVUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ovum in Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    
• ovum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

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)