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Ovum vs Novum - What's the difference?

ovum | novum |

As nouns the difference between ovum and novum

is that ovum is (label) the female gamete in animals; the egg cell while novum is a new feature.

ovum

English

Noun

(ova)
  • (label) The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.

    • Synonyms

    * megagamete

    Hypernyms

    * gamete

    Coordinate terms

    * spermatozoon

    Related terms

    {{rel3, oval , Ovaltine , ovary , ovate , oviparous , ovo-lacto-vegetarian , ovoid , ovulate}}

    See also

    * oocyte English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    novum

    English

    Noun

    (nova)
  • A new feature.
  • *
  • (obsolete) A game of dice, properly called novem quinque , the two principal throws being nine and five.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Quotations

    (English Citations of "novum") * 2006 , Adam Roberts, Science Fiction , pages 6-7: *: It seems that this ‘point of difference’, the thing or things that differentiate the world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognise around us, is the crucial separator between SF and other forms of imaginative or fantastic literature. The critic Darko Suvin has usefully coined the term ‘novum'’, the Latin for ‘new’ or ‘new thing’, to refer to this ‘point of difference’ (the plural is ‘'''nova'''’). An SF text may be based on one '''novum''', such as [...]. More usually it will be predicated on a number of interrelated '''nova''', such as [...]. This ‘' novum ’ must not be supernatural but need not necessarily be a piece of technology. ----