ovum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
ovum (plural ova)
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Translations
gamete
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See also
Japanese
Romanization
ovum
Latin
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 аице (aice), Persian خایه (ḵẖāya), Old Norse egg, Old English ǣġ.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]
Noun
ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ōvum | ōva |
Genitive | ōvī | ōvōrum |
Dative | ōvō | ōvīs |
Accusative | ōvum | ōva |
Ablative | ōvō | ōvīs |
Vocative | ōvum | ōva |
Derived terms
Descendants
- >? Albanian: ve
- 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
References
- “ovum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ovum 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.)
- (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
Malay
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English ovum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ōvum, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis.
Pronunciation
Noun
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