ovo

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈovo/

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• Rhymes: -ovo
• Hyphenation: o‧vo

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

1. egg

• kirlovaĵo
• ova
• ovaĵo

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.βʊ]

ovo m (plural ovos)

1. egg

   A galiña pón o ovo para proveito da muller.

   The hen lays the egg for the benefit of the woman.

2. quartz stone pivot of a watermill
3. spherical stone used as the lower pivot of the hinge of a traditional gate

• casca
• clara
• xema

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈo.vo/

ovo (plural ovi)

1. egg

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.vo/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɔvo
• Hyphenation: ò‧vo

ovo m (plural ova f)

1. (Tuscany, central Italy) alternative form of uovo

• 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

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.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.vo]

ovō (present infinitive ovāre, perfect active ovāvī, supine ovātum); first conjugation

1. to exult, rejoice

   Synonyms: gaudeō, grātulor, congrātulor, exhilarō, exsultō, fruor

   Antonym: displiceō

2. to applaud, celebrate with an ovation

In Classical Latin, the verb is mainly found as a present participle, ovāns.^[1] The perfect stem ovāv- is attested only post-Classically.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈoː.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.vo]

ōvō

1. dative/ablative singular of ōvum

• “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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) from beginning to end: ab ovo usque ad mala (proverb.)
    

ovo

1. pig

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʋɔ/

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• Rhymes: -oːʋɔ
• Hyphenation: ov‧o

ovo

1. only used in ab ovo (“ab ovo”)

• -ovo

Inherited from Vulgar Latin (*)ŏvum, from Classical Latin ōvum. Found in the Cantigas de Santa Maria.^[1]

ovo m (plural ovos)

1. egg

• Fala: ovu
• Galician: ovo
• Portuguese: ovo

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

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): [ˈuv]
• Rhymes: -ovu, (Northern Portugal) -obu
• Hyphenation: o‧vo

ovo m (plural ovos, metaphonic)

1. (biology) egg (cell that results from the fertilization of the female gamete by the male gamete)
2. (biology) egg (rounded body produced by oviparous females consisting of a membrane and outer shell that contains the embryo)
   1. 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?

3. 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?)
4. (figuratively) germ, incipient state
5. (figuratively) principle
6. (figuratively) origin
7. (colloquial) testicle

• → Saramaccan: óbo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Rhymes: -ɔvu, (Northern Portugal) -ɔbu
• Hyphenation: o‧vo

ovo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

• “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

• IPA^(key): /ǒʋoː/

òvō (Cyrillic spelling о̀во̄)

1. neuter nominative singular of ovaj
2. neuter accusative singular of ovaj

• IPA^(key): /ˈobo/ [ˈo.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -obo
• Syllabification: o‧vo

Borrowed from Latin ōvum. Doublet of huevo.

ovo m (plural ovos)

1. (architecture) egg-shaped decoration

ovo

1. first-person singular present indicative of ovar

ovo

1. obsolete spelling of hubo

• “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], 10 December 2024

ovo

1. they (third-person plural pronoun)

ovo m (plural ovi or uvi)

1. alternative spelling of òvo (“egg”)