Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm
Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om
Latin ōvum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin ovalisbor.
English oval
From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.
Meanings
Having the shape of an oval.
Of or pertaining to an ovum.
oval conceptions
Every congenital abnormality is doubtless due to a peculiarity in the sperm or oval elements or in their mingling, or to some disturbance in their early development. 1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm
Proto-Italic *ōw(j)om
Latin ōvum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Late Latin ovalisbor.
English oval
From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.
Meanings
An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg. ▸ A two-dimensional one.
Near-synonym: ellipse
An elongated round shape resembling an ellipse or an egg. ▸ A three-dimensional one.
A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
On the dirt oval's far side 2011, Scott Sigler, The All-Pro, BookBaby:
At the far end of the wide corridor were the doors of a ward. The panels were frosted save for ovals of clear glass at face level. 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 19:
(Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
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