ovo

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

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

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

1. egg

• kirlovaĵo
• ova
• ovaĵo

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.βʊ]

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

• casca
• clara
• xema

• “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.

Borrowed from Esperanto ovo, French œuf, Italian uovo, Spanish huevo, from Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.vo/

ovo (plural ovi)

1. egg

ovo m (plural ova f)

1. (Tuscany, Umbria) Alternative form of uovo

• 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

Onomatopoeic; compare Ancient Greek εὐάζω (euázō).

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.u̯oː/, [ˈou̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]

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

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.u̯oː/, [ˈoːu̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]

ōvō

1. dative/ablative singular of ōvum

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    

ovo

1. pig

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʋɔ/

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• Rhymes: -oːʋɔ
• Hyphenation: ov‧o

ovo

1. Only used in ab ovo (“ab ovo”)

• -ovo

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.[1]

ovo m (plural ovos)

1. egg

• Fala: ovu
• Galician: ovo
• Portuguese: ovo

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

• Rhymes: -ovu, (Northern Portugal) -obu
• Hyphenation: o‧vo

ovo m (plural ovos, metaphonic)

1. egg
2. (colloquial) testicle

• ova

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔvu, (Northern Portugal) -ɔbu
• Hyphenation: o‧vo

ovo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

• IPA^(key): /ǒʋoː/

òvō (Cyrillic spelling о̀во̄)

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

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

Borrowed from Latin ōvum. Doublet of huevo.

ovo m (plural ovos)

1. (architecture) egg-shaped decoration

ovo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

ovo

1. Obsolete spelling of hubo

• “ovo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

ovo

1. they (third-person plural pronoun)

ovo m (plural ovi or uvi)

1. Alternative spelling of òvo (“egg”)