ovum

ovum

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

ovum (plural ova)

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

Synonyms

• megagamete

Hypernyms

• gamete

Coordinate terms

• spermatozoon

Derived terms

• ovism
• ovist
• ovo-

 

Related terms

• oval
• Ovaltine
• ovary
• ovate
• oviparous
• ovoid
• ovo-lacto-vegetarian
• ovulate

 

Translations

gamete

Albanian: vezë (sq) f, ovum m Arabic: بُيَيْضَة‎ f (buyayḍa), بُوَيْضَة‎ f (buwayḍa) Egyptian Arabic: بويضة‎ f (buwayḍa) Armenian: ձվաբջիջ (hy) (jvabǰiǰ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܹܥܬܵܐ‎ f (beʿta) Azerbaijani: yumurta (az) Basque: ou (ca) m, obulu Belarusian: яйцакле́тка f (jajcakljétka) Bengali: ডিম্ব (ḍimb) Bulgarian: яйцекле́тка f (jajceklétka) Burmese: သားဥ (sa:u.) Catalan: òvul (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 卵 (leon5-2) Hakka: 卵 (lón) Mandarin: 卵 (zh) (luǎn), 卵子 (zh) (luǎnzǐ) Min Nan: 卵 (zh-min-nan) (nn̄g) Cornish: oy m Czech: vajíčko (cs) n Danish: æg (da) n, ægcelle c Dutch: eicel (nl) m or f Estonian: munarakk Faroese: egg (fo) n Finnish: munasolu (fi) French: ovule (fr) m Georgian: კვერცხუჯრედი (ḳvercxuǯredi) German: Ovum (de) n, Eizelle (de) f Greek: αβγό (el) n (avgó), ωάριο (el) n (oário) Greenlandic: mannik Hawaiian: hua Hebrew: בֵּיצִית‎ (he) f (beitsit) Hiligaynon: itlog Hindi: डिम्ब (hi) m (ḍimb) Hungarian: pete (hu), petesejt (hu) Icelandic: egg (is) n, eggfruma f Ido: ovo (io) Indonesian: ovum (id) Irish: ubh (ga) f, ubhán m Italian: ovulo (it) m Japanese: 卵 (ja) (らん, ran), 卵子 (ja) (らんし, ranshi) Kaurna: muka Kazakh: аналық жасуша (analyq jasuşa), ұрық жасуша (ūryq jasuşa) Khmer: ស៊ុត (km) (sut) Korean: 난자(卵子) (ko) (nanja), 란자 (ranja) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: hêkexane f, xaneya hêkê f Kyrgyz: урук клеткасы (uruk kletkası), энелик клетка (enelik kletka) Latin: ovum (la) n Latvian: olšūna f Lithuanian: kiaušialąstė f, kiaušinėlis m Luxembourgish: Eezell f Macedonian: јајце клетка f (jajce kletka) Malay: ovum Jawi: اوۏوم‎ Malayalam: അണ്ഡം (ml) (aṇḍaṃ) Marathi: अंड (mr) (aṇḍa), अंडकोश (aṇḍkoś) Norwegian: Bokmål: egg (no) n, eggcelle m or f Nynorsk: egg n Persian: تخمک‎ (fa) (toxmak) Polish: jajo (pl) n, komórka jajowa (pl) f Portuguese: óvulo (pt) m Romanian: ovul (ro) n Russian: яйцекле́тка (ru) f (jajceklétka) Scottish Gaelic: ugh m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: јајашце n Roman: jajašce (sh) n, jajna ćelija f Slovak: vajcová bunka f, vajíčko n Slovene: jajčece (sl) n Spanish: óvulo (es) m Swahili: yai (sw) Swedish: ägg (sv) n, äggcell (sv) c Tagalog: itlog (tl) Tajik: тухмҳуҷайра (tuxmhujayra) Thai: เซลล์ไข่ (seel-kài) Turkish: ovum (tr), yumurta (tr), yumurta hücresi Ukrainian: яйцекліти́на (uk) f (jajceklitýna) Uzbek: tuxumhujayra, tuxum (uz) Vietnamese: noãn (vi), trứng (vi) West Frisian: aai (fy) n Zazaki: akk

See also

• oocyte

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay ovum, from Latin ōvum.

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)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)

   Synonym: sel telur

Related terms

• ovulasi

 

Further reading

• “ovum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Japanese

Romanization

ovum

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

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Latin

ōva gallīnārum (hens' eggs).

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]

Noun

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

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

Derived terms

• ōvārium
• ōvātus
• ōvicō
• ōviparus

Descendants

All descendants reflect an initial [ɔ], not [oː]. For the sound change involved, see colober.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: ou
  • Megleno-Romanian: uou
  • Romanian: ou
• Dalmatian:
  • juf
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: uovo
  • Neapolitan: uòvo
  • Sicilian: ovu
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: ûf, ûv
  • Lombard: euv
  • Piedmontese: euv
  • Romansch: ov, öv, iev
  • Venetian: óvo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old Francoprovençal: of
    • Franco-Provençal: of, uef (Savoyard)
  • Old French: oef, of
    • French: œuf
    • Norman: oeu
    • Picard: uë
    • Walloon: oû
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: ou
  • Gascon: ueu, güeu
  • Occitan: uòu, ueu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: güego
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: güevu
    • Leonese: guevu
    • Mirandese: uobo
  • Old Portuguese: ovo
    • Galician: ovo
    • Portuguese: ovo, ova
  • Old Spanish: hueuo, ueuo
    • Ladino: guevo
    • Spanish: huevo, hueva
      • Papiamentu: webu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: obu, ovu, ou
• Ancient borrowings:
  • →? Albanian: ve
• Learned borrowings:
  • → English: ovum
  • → Esperanto: ovo
    • → Ido: ovo
  • → Interlingua: ovo
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: ovo
  • → Spanish: ovo

References

• “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.)
    
• “ovum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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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

Noun

ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم‎, plural ovum-ovum, informal 1st possessive ovumku, 2nd possessive ovummu, 3rd possessive ovumnya)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)