ovum

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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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 (ḍimbo)
• Bulgarian: яйцекле́тка f (jajceklétka)
• Burmese: သားဥ (sa:u.)
• Catalan: òvul (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 卵 (leon^5-2)

  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
• ovia

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.

Japanese

Romanization

ovum

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

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 (xâye), 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 Proto-Romance */ˈɔβu/, with 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 Galician-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^[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

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)