oval

From Late Latin ovalis, from ovum; cognate with French and Italian ovale, Dutch ovaal. From 1570.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈoʊvəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊvəl

oval (plural ovals)

1. An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
2. A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
3. (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
4. (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.

oval (comparative more oval, superlative most oval)

1. Having the shape of an oval.
2. Of or pertaining to an ovum.
   • 1901, Havelock Ellis, Sexual inversion, page 187:

     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.

   oval conceptions

Any of the English adjectives derived from Latin ovum (including oval, ovate, ovoid) are typically considered synonymous when referring to egg-like shapes where one end is wider than the other but, out of all of them, oval is the most likely to be used in reference to a symmetrical ellipse.

• ovular, ovate, ovoid, ovaline, elliptical, egg-shaped

• bioval
• circumoval
• ovaline
• ovalish
• ovally
• perioval
• plurioval
• monoval
• unioval

• ovoid
• ovum

• vola

oval (epicene, plural ovales)

1. oval (oval-shaped)

• ovaláu

From ou +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈβal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [oˈval]

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovals)

1. oval

   Synonym: ovalat

oval m (plural ovals)

1. oval

• ovoide

• “oval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “oval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /oˈvæˀl/

oval c (singular definite ovalen, plural indefinite ovaler)

1. oval (shape)
2. oval (object)

oval (neuter ovalt, plural and definite singular attributive ovale)

1. oval

• “oval” in Den Danske Ordbog

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oval (strong nominative masculine singular ovaler, comparative ovaler, superlative am ovalsten)

1. oval

   Synonyms: eiförmig, eirund

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”).

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oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovaler, definite plural ovalene)

1. an oval

• ovalformet

• “oval” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin ovalis, from ovum (“egg”).

oval (neuter singular ovalt, definite singular and plural ovale)

1. oval

oval m (definite singular ovalen, indefinite plural ovalar, definite plural ovalane)

1. an oval

• “oval” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: o‧val

oval m or f (plural ovais)

1. oval (shaped like an egg)

   Synonyms: ovalado, ovoide

Borrowed from French ovale.

oval m or n (feminine singular ovală, masculine plural ovali, feminine and neuter plural ovale)

1. oval

• IPA^(key): /oˈbal/ [oˈβ̞al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: o‧val

oval m or f (masculine and feminine plural ovales)

1. oval (shaped like an oval)

   Synonym: ovalado

• “oval”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

oval (not comparable)

1. oval (having an elongated round shape)

• elliptisk

oval c

1. an oval (elongated round shape)

• ellips

• oval in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• oval in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• oval in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)