ovo
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ovo (accusative singular ovon, plural ovoj, accusative plural ovojn)
Derived terms edit
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ovo m (plural ovos)
- egg
- A galiña pón o ovo para proveito da muller.
- The hen lays the egg for the benefit of the woman.
- quartz stone pivot of a watermill
- spherical stone used as the lower pivot of the hinge of a traditional gate
Coordinate terms edit
References edit
- “ovo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “ovo” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ovo” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “ovo” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “ovo” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Esperanto ovo, French œuf, Italian uovo, Spanish huevo, from Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ovo (plural ovi)
Italian edit
Noun edit
ovo m (plural ova f)
References edit
- 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
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Onomatopoeic; compare Ancient Greek εὐάζω (euázō).
Plutarch, in the life of Marcellus, claims that the name derives from celebration involving sacrifice of a sheep.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.u̯oː/, [ˈou̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]
Verb edit
ovō (present infinitive ovāre, perfect active ovāvī, supine ovātum); first conjugation
Usage notes edit
In Classical Latin, the verb is mainly found as a present participle, ovāns.[1] The perfect stem ovāv- is attested only post-Classically.
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.u̯oː/, [ˈoːu̯oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]
Noun edit
ōvō
References edit
- “ovo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ovo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ovo 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.)
- (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
- ^ “ouō” on page 1278 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Mountain Koiari edit
Noun edit
ovo
References edit
- Roger and Susan Garland. Mountain Koiali - English Dictionary. Ukarumpa: SIL, Ms. 38pp. (1983).
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
ovo
- Only used in ab ovo (“ab ovo”)
Related terms edit
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.[1]
Noun edit
ovo m (plural ovos)
Descendants edit
References edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Doublet of ova.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ovo m (plural ovos, metaphonic)
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
ovo
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
òvō (Cyrillic spelling о̀во̄)
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Latin ōvum. Doublet of huevo.
Noun edit
ovo m (plural ovos)
- (architecture) egg-shaped decoration
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
ovo
Etymology 3 edit
Verb edit
ovo
Further reading edit
- “ovo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Umbundu edit
Pronoun edit
ovo
- they (third-person plural pronoun)