ovulation

See also: Ovulation

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English ovul(e)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

English ovulate

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ion

English ovulation

From ovulate + -ion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɒvjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑvjəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

ovulation (countable and uncountable, plural ovulations)

1. (physiology) The release of an ovum from an ovary.

Derived terms

• anovulation
• concealed ovulation
• cryptic ovulation
• hyperovulation
• induced ovulation
• nonovulation
• oligoovulation
• ovulational
• ovulationary
• periovulation
• polyovulation
• post-ovulation
• postovulation
• preovulation
• reovulation
• superovulation

Translations

release of an ovum from the ovary

• Armenian: ձվազատում (hy) (jvazatum)
• Belarusian: авуляцыя f (avuljacyja)
• Bulgarian: овулация f (ovulacija)
• Catalan: ovulació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排卵 (zh) (páiluǎn)

• Czech: ovulace (cs) f
• Danish: ægløsning c
• Dutch: eisprong (nl) m, ovulatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ovolado
• Finnish: ovulaatio (fi)
• French: ovulation (fr) f
• German: Ovulation (de) f, Eisprung (de) m
• Greek: ωορρηξία (el) f (oorrixía)
• Hungarian: ovuláció (hu), peteérés (hu)
• Icelandic: egglos (is) n
• Indonesian: ovulasi (id)
• Irish: ubhsceitheadh m
• Italian: ovulazione (it) f
• Japanese: 排卵 (ja) (はいらん, hairan)
• Korean: 배란 (ko) (baeran)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: hêkdanan

• Latvian: ovulācija f
• Lithuanian: ovuliacija f
• Macedonian: овулација f (ovulacija)
• Malay:

  Jawi: ڤڠوۏومن

  Rumi: pengovuman

• Malayalam: അണ്ഡവിസർ‌ജനം (aṇḍavisaṟ‌janaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovulasjon m, eggløsning m or f

  Nynorsk: ovulasjon m, eggløysing f

• Polish: owulacja (pl) f, jajeczkowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: ovulação (pt) f, ovocitação f
• Russian: овуля́ция (ru) f (ovuljácija)
• Slovak: ovulácia (sk) f
• Slovene: ovulacija f
• Spanish: ovulación (es) f
• Swedish: ägglossning (sv) c, ovulation (sv) c
• Tagalog: saitlog
• Tajik: тухмакгузорӣ (tuxmakguzori)
• Turkish: ovülasyon
• Turkmen: owulýasiýa
• Ukrainian: овуля́ція (uk) f (ovuljácija)
• Uzbek: ovulyatsiya

References

• “ovulation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “ovulation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Danish

Etymology

From Latin ovulum +‎ -tion.

Noun

ovulation c (singular definite ovulationen, plural indefinite ovulationer)

1. (biology, rare) ovulation

Declension

Declension of ovulation

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ovulation	ovulationen	ovulationer	ovulationerne
genitive	ovulations	ovulationens	ovulationers	ovulationernes

Synonyms

• ægløsning

References

• “ovulation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From ovule +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

ovulation f (plural ovulations)

1. ovulation

Descendants

• → Dutch: ovulatie
  • → Indonesian: ovulasi

Further reading

• “ovulation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

ovulation c

1. (physiology) ovulation

   Synonym: ägglossning

Declension

Declension of ovulation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ovulation	ovulations
	definite	ovulationen	ovulationens
plural	indefinite	ovulationer	ovulationers
	definite	ovulationerna	ovulationernas

References

• “ovulation”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “ovulation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “ovulation”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)