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語源

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

発音

• enPR: ō′vəm
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈəʊ̯.vəm/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈoʊ̯.vəm/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈɐʉ̯.vəm/; (also General Australian) /ˈəʉ̯.vəm/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈo.vəm/, /ˈo.vʌm/
• (India) IPA: /ˈoː.vum/
• 韻: -əʊvəm
• ハイフネーション: o‧vum

名詞

ovum (plural ova)

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

   Synonyms: egg cell, egg, megagamete

   Hypernym: gamete

   Coordinate term: spermatozoon

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関連する語

参考

Further reading

• “ovum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈoː.wũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈɔː.vum]
• ハイフネーション: ō‧vum

名詞

ōvum n (genitive ōvī); second declension

1. 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)
2. egg (edible egg of a domestic fowl; the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food)

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

(Balkan and Insular Romance forms may derive from *ŏvum)

参照

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, 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
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ovum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC