ovum

Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of egg and ey.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.vəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vəm/

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ovum (plural ova)

1. (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

• megagamete

• gamete

• spermatozoon

• oocyte

From Malay ovum, from Latin ōvum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔvʊm/
• Rhymes: -ɔvʊm, -vʊm, -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: ovum

ovum (plural ovum-ovum, first-person possessive ovumku, second-person possessive ovummu, third-person possessive ovumnya)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)

   Synonym: sel telur

• “ovum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

ovum

1. Rōmaji transcription of おゔむ
2. Rōmaji transcription of オヴム

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.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ōvārium
• ōvātus
• ōvicō
• ōviparus

All descendants reflect an initial [ɔ], not [oː]. For the sound change involved, see colober.

• “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, 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

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

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

ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم‎, plural ovum-ovum, informal 1st possessive ovumku, 2nd possessive ovummu, 3rd possessive ovumnya)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)