ovum
English
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
gamete
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔvʊm/
- Rhymes: -ɔvʊm, -vʊm, -ʊm, -m
- Hyphenation: ovum
Noun
ovum (plural ovum-ovum, first-person possessive ovumku, second-person possessive ovummu, third-person possessive ovumnya)
Related terms
Further reading
- “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.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).[1][2] Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]
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 |
Related terms
- avis (“bird”)
Descendants
(Romance forms may all derive from *ŏvum)
References
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “ō(u̯)i̯-om”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 783
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438
Further reading
- “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.)
- (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
Etymology
Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ovom]
- Rhymes: -vom, -om
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