ovum

Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Cognate with Spanish huevo (“egg”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.vəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vəm/

ovum (plural ova)

1. (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

• megagamete

• gamete

• spermatozoon

• oocyte

ovum

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

From Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), likely a derivative of *h₂éwis (“bird”) (whence also Latin avis (“bird”)). Cognates include Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión), Old Church Slavonic аице (aice), Persian خایه‎ (ḵẖāya), Old Norse egg, Old English ǣġ.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.wum/, [ˈoː.wʊ̃]

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• ōvātus
• ōvicō
• ōviparus

• 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, 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

• اوۏوم‎

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)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)