ova

ova is a Latin form of ovum, meaning “egg”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun or nominative plural neuter noun.

Found 52 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.124: … nes quaedamque serpentes ortae extra aquam simul ac primum niti possunt aquam persequuntur. quin etiam anitum ova gallinis saepe supponimus; e quibus pulli orti primo aluntur ab his ut a matribus, a quibus exclusi fotique s …

Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.423: Ovaque sumantur, sumantur Hymettia mella,

Seneca the Younger, Naturales Quaestiones 2.5.2: … pprehendit, mundus autem, quantum in aeternum desiderabat, inuasit. Pusillum tibi exemplar magnae rei ponam : oua tantum complectuntur humoris quantum ad effectum animalis exituri satis est.

All forms of ovum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.