uovo

• huovo, vuovo (archaic)
• ovo (Tuscan, Central Italian)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Latin ōvum n.

The irregular plural uova reflects a continuation of the Latin plural with /-a/.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɔ.vo/

• Audio (un uovo, “an egg”)

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• Rhymes: -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: uò‧vo

uovo m (plural uova f)

1. egg

   un uovo di gallina ― a chicken egg

• uovo on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Latin ōvum n.

The irregular plural ova reflects a continuation of the Latin plural with /-a/.

• (Naples) IPA^(key): [ˈuːovə], (plural) [ˈɔːvə]
• (Castelmezzano) IPA^(key): [ˈuːə̆və] (singular/plural)

uovo m (plural ova)

1. egg

• 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
• Rocco, Emmanuele (1882) “uovo”, in Vocabolario del dialetto napolitano