ovum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of egg, ey, huevo, and oeuf. === Pronunciation === enPR: ō′vəm (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈəʊ̯.vəm/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈoʊ̯.vəm/ (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈɐʉ̯.vəm/; (also General Australian) /ˈəʉ̯.vəm/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈo.vəm/, /ˈo.vʌm/ (India) IPA(key): /ˈoː.vum/ Rhymes: -əʊvəm Hyphenation: o‧vum === Noun === ovum (plural ova) (cytology, embryology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell. Synonyms: egg cell, egg, megagamete Hypernym: gamete Coordinate term: spermatozoon ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === === Further reading === “ovum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Indonesian == === Etymology === Inherited from Malay ovum, from Latin ōvum (“egg”). === Pronunciation === (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈɔvum/ [ˈɔ.fʊm] Rhymes: -ɔvum Syllabification: o‧vum === Noun === ovum (plural ovum-ovum) (cytology, embryology) ovum (gamete) Synonym: sel telur ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “ovum”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Latin == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *ōwom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈoː.wũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.vum] Hyphenation: ō‧vum === Noun === ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension egg (approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development) egg (edible egg of a domestic fowl; the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== (Balkan and Insular Romance forms may derive from *ŏvum) === References === === 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, 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. “ovum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ovum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎[2], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC == Malay == === Etymology === Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ōvum (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm, likely a derivative of *h₂éwis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈovom/ [ˈo.vom] Rhymes: -ovom, -om Hyphenation: o‧vum === Noun === ovum (Jawi spelling اوۏوم, plural ovum-ovum or ovum2) (cytology, embryology) ovum (gamete)