ovum

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

• (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
• ovia

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

   • 2018, “Lahir Mata Satir”, performed by Deadsquad:

     Terbentuk dari ovum yang hina
     Dibuahi sperma dan ludah
     Diberkati jiwa yang cacat

     Formed from despised ovum
     Fertilized sperm and saliva
     Blessed with defective soul

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

ovum

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

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).[1][2] Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión).

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

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• avis (“bird”)

(Romance forms may all derive from *ŏvum)

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ou
  • Megleno-Romanian: uou
  • Romanian: ou
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: ou, ovu
• Vulgar Latin: *ŏvum (see there for further descendants)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: ovum
  • → Esperanto: ovo
    • → Ido: ovo
  • → Interlingua: ovo
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: ovo
  • → Spanish: ovo

• “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)