# ovum
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈəʊ.vəm/
* (US) IPA: /ˈoʊ.vəm/
* Audio (UK):(file)

### Noun

ovum (plural ova)
* (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
    Synonyms: egg cell, egg, megagamete
    Hypernym: gamete
    Coordinate term: spermatozoon

#### Derived terms

* ovism
* ovist
* ovo-

#### Related terms

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

#### Translations
### See also

* oocyte
* ovia

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay ovum, from Latin ōvum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔvʊm/
* Rhymes: -ɔvʊm, -vʊm, -ʊm, -m
* Hyphenation: ovum

### Noun

ovum (plural ovum-ovum)
* (cytology) ovum (gamete)
    Synonym: sel telur
** 2018, “Lahir Mata Satir”, performed by Deadsquad:Terbentuk dari ovum yang hina Dibuahi sperma dan ludah Diberkati jiwa yang cacatFormed from despised ovum Fertilized sperm and saliva Blessed with defective soul

#### Related terms

* ovulasi

### Further reading

* “ovum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

ovum
* Rōmaji transcription of おゔむ
* Rōmaji transcription of オヴム

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]

### Noun

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension
* egg

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* ōvārium
* ōvātus
* ōvicō
* ōviparus

#### Related terms

* avis (“bird”)

#### Descendants

(Balkan and Insular Romance forms may derive from *ŏvum)
* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: ou
** Megleno-Romanian: uou
** Romanian: ou
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: ou, ovu
* Vulgar Latin: *ŏvum (see there for further descendants)
* Borrowings:
** → English: ovum
** → Esperanto: ovo
*** → Ido: ovo
** → Interlingua: ovo
** → Norwegian Bokmål: ovo
** → Spanish: ovo

### References

* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “ō(u̯)i̯-om”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 783
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ōvum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 438

### Further reading

* “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

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ōvum, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ovom]
* Rhymes: -vom, -om

### Noun

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