# ovo
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈovo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ovo
* Hyphenation: o‧vo

### Noun

ovo (accusative singular ovon, plural ovoj, accusative plural ovojn)
* egg

#### Derived terms

* kirlovaĵo
* ova
* ovaĵo

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɔ.βʊ]

### Noun

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

* casca
* clara
* xema

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “ovo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ovo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ovo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ovo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ovo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto ovo, French œuf, Italian uovo, Spanish huevo, from Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈo.vo/

### Noun

ovo (plural ovi)
* egg

## Italian
### Noun

ovo m (plural ova f)
* (Tuscany, Umbria) Alternative form of uovo

### References

* 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
### Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic;(Can this etymology be sourced?) compare Ancient Greek εὐάζω (euázō).
Plutarch, in the life of Marcellus, claims that the name derives from celebration involving sacrifice of a sheep.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈo.u̯oː/, [ˈou̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]

#### Verb

ovō (present infinitive ovāre, perfect active ovāvī, supine ovātum); first conjugation
* to exult, rejoice
    Synonyms: gaudeō, grātulor, congrātulor, exhilarō, exsultō, fruor
    Antonym: displiceō
* to applaud, celebrate with an ovation

##### Usage notes

In Classical Latin, the verb is mainly found as a present participle, ovāns. The perfect stem ovāv- is attested only post-Classically.

##### Derived terms

* ovālis
* ovanter
* ovātiō
* ovātus

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈoː.u̯oː/, [ˈoːu̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.vo/, [ˈɔːvo]

#### Noun

ōvō
* dative/ablative singular of ōvum

### References

* “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, London: Macmillan and Co. (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
### Noun

ovo
* pig

### References

* Roger and Susan Garland. Mountain Koiali - English Dictionary. Ukarumpa: SIL, Ms. 38pp. (1983).

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈoːʋɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -oːʋɔ
* Hyphenation: ov‧o

### Adverb

ovo
* Only used in ab ovo (“ab ovo”)

#### Related terms

* -ovo

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

### Noun

ovo m (plural ovos)
* egg

#### Descendants

* Fala: ovu
* Galician: ovo
* Portuguese: ovo

### References

* ↑ Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ovo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese ovo, from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Doublet of ova.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈo.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈo.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈo.bu/ [ˈo.βu]
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: [ˈuv]
* Rhymes: -ovu, (Northern Portugal) -obu
* Hyphenation: o‧vo

#### Noun

ovo m (plural ovos, metaphonic)
* (biology) egg (cell that results from the fertilization of the female gamete by the male gamete)
* (biology) egg (rounded body produced by oviparous females consisting of a membrane and outer shell that contains the embryo)
** this body, particularly that of chickens, when it has not yet been fertilized and is intended for food
*** 1991, Nelson Nadotti, 0:12:47 from the start, in Mário Márcio Bandarra, director, Inspetor Faustão e o Mallandro: A Missão (Primeira e Única), spoken by Inspetor Faustão (Fausto Silva), Rio de Janeiro: Xuxa Produções:Você destruiu o meu ovo! Vou almoçar onde?You destroyed my egg! Where am I going to have lunch?
* chair to transport a baby from birth until it reaches around ten, or at most thirteen, kilos in weight (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)
* (figuratively) germ, incipient state
* (figuratively) principle
* (figuratively) origin
* (colloquial) testicle

##### Derived terms

* babar ovo
* ovão
* ovar
* ovinho
* ovo de Páscoa
* ovos mexidos
* ovos-moles

##### Related terms

* ova
* ovíparo
* ovologia

##### Descendants

* → Saramaccan: óbo

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔ.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔ.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈɔ.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.bu/ [ˈɔ.βu]
* Rhymes: -ɔvu, (Northern Portugal) -ɔbu
* Hyphenation: o‧vo

#### Verb

ovo
* first-person singular present indicative of ovar

### Further reading

* “ovo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “ovo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǒʋoː/

### Pronoun

òvō (Cyrillic spelling о̀во̄)
* neuter nominative singular of ovaj
* neuter accusative singular of ovaj

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈobo/ [ˈo.β̞o]
* Rhymes: -obo
* Syllabification: o‧vo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ōvum. Doublet of huevo.

#### Noun

ovo m (plural ovos)
* (architecture) egg-shaped decoration

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

ovo
* first-person singular present indicative of ovar

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

ovo
* Obsolete spelling of hubo.

### Further reading

* “ovo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Umbundu
### Pronoun

ovo
* they (third-person plural pronoun)

#### See also

| | singular | plural |
| first-person | ame | etu |
| second-person | ove | ene |
| third-person | eye | ovo |

## Venetan
### Noun

ovo m (plural ovi or uvi)
* Alternative spelling of òvo (“egg”)