English
ovoid
Ovoid comes from Latin ōvum ‘egg’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōvum‘egg’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985ovoid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEōvum‘egg’
- Englishearliest quotation 1985ovoid
Earliest quotation: 1985, Margaret Atwood, Soul Scrolls: “That was the way my mind lurched and stumbled,…”
Formed from ōvum ‘egg’ + -oid ‘resembling’
Linked words
through Latin ōvum ‘egg’
Today it means
adj Shaped like an oval.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin ōvum / ovoid