ab ovo

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ab ōvō (literally “from the egg”).

Pronunciation
  • (US) IPA(key): /æ.ˈboʊ.ˌvoʊ/

Adverb

ab ovo (not comparable)

  1. From the beginning. [from late 16th c.][1]
    Coordinate term: in medias res
    • 2011, Ludwig Büchner, J. Frederick Collingwood, Force and Matter: Empirico-Philosophical Studies, Intelligibly Rendered, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN)
      We should be led too far, nor would it possess sufficient interest for our readers, were we, in this place specially, to discuss this important and complicated question, and to show ab ovo why this notion has been rejected.

Further reading

References
  1. “ab ovo” in Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2002, →ISBN, page 7.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ab ovo (literally “from the egg”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /aˈβo.βo/, /ab ˈo.βo/

Adverb

ab ovo

  1. ab ovo
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