The story
- Latin · derived fromōvum“egg”
- French · borrowed fromovule“ovum”
- English todayovule
Borrowed from French ovule (“ovum”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of ovolo.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
ovule
Today it means: The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. Full definition →
French ovule ← Latin ōvum