ovumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊ.vəm/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊ.vəm/

名詞

ovum (複数形 ova)

1. (cytology) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

同意語

• megagamete

上位語

• gamete

等位語

• spermatozoon

派生語

関連する語

参考

• oocyte

Latin

語源

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, 古期英語 ǣġ.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.u̯um/, [ˈoːu̯ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vum/, [ˈɔːvum]

名詞

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. egg

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

• ōvārium
• ōvātus
• ōvicō
• ōviparus

派生した語

All descendants reflect Proto-Romance */ˈɔβu/, with an initial [ɔ], not [oː]. For the sound change involved, see colober.

参照

• “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 かつ 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