ovum

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

• enPR: ō′vəm
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ̯.vəm/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ̯.vəm/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɐʉ̯.vəm/; (also General Australian) /ˈəʉ̯.vəm/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vəm/, /ˈo.vʌm/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vum/
• Rhymes: -əʊvəm
• Hyphenation: o‧vum

ovum (plural ova)

2. (cytology, embryology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

   Synonyms: egg cell, egg, megagamete

   Hypernym: gamete

   Coordinate term: spermatozoon

• “ovum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Inherited from Malay ovum, from Latin ōvum (“egg”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔvum/ [ˈɔ.fʊm]
• Rhymes: -ɔvum
• Syllabification: o‧vum

ovum (plural ovum-ovum)

2. (cytology, embryology) 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 [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Inherited from Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).^[1][2] Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.wũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.vum]
• Hyphenation: ō‧vum

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg (approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development)
2. egg (edible egg of a domestic fowl; the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

(Balkan and Insular Romance forms may derive from *ŏvum)

• “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, 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^[1], 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
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ovum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis.

• IPA^(key): /ˈovom/ [ˈo.vom]

• Rhymes: -ovom, -om
• Hyphenation: o‧vum

ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم, plural ovum-ovum or ovum²)

2. (cytology, embryology) ovum (gamete)