different between ovulate vs ovum

English

Etymology

ovule +? -ate

Verb

ovulate (third-person singular simple present ovulates, present participle ovulating, simple past and past participle ovulated)

1. (intransitive) to produce eggs or ova

Derived terms

• ovulation
• ovulatory

Translations

Adjective

ovulate (not comparable)

1. (botany) Containing, or bearing, an ovule.

Derived terms

• multiovulate

References

• ovulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• ovulate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• volutae

Italian

Verb

ovulate

1. second-person plural present indicative of ovulare
2. second-person plural imperative of ovulare
3. feminine plural of ovulato

Anagrams

• avutole
• evoluta

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?vum (“egg”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???.v?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?.v?m/

Noun

ovum (plural ova)

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

Synonyms

• megagamete

Hypernyms

• gamete

Coordinate terms

• spermatozoon

Related terms

Translations

See also

• oocyte

Japanese

Romanization

ovum

1. R?maji transcription of ???
2. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *?wom, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm (“egg”), likely a derivative of *h?éwis (“bird”) (whence also Latin avis (“bird”)). Cognates include Ancient Greek ??? (?ión), Old Church Slavonic ???? (aice), Persian ????? (???ya), Old Norse egg, Old English ??.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?.u?um/, [?o?u?õ?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.vum/, [???vum]

Noun

?vum n (genitive ?v?); second declension

1. egg

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Derived terms

• ?v?tus
• ?vic?
• ?viparus

Descendants

References

• 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, 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

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English ovum, from Latin ?vum, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm, likely a derivative of *h?éwis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ovom]
• Rhymes: -vom, -om

Noun

ovum (Jawi spelling ??????, plural ovum-ovum, informal 1st possessive ovumku, impolite 2nd possessive ovummu, 3rd possessive ovumnya)

1. (cytology) ovum (gamete)