"oviposit" meaning in All languages combined

See oviposit on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: oviposits [present, singular, third-person], ovipositing [participle, present], oviposited [participle, past], oviposited [past]
Etymology: From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”), perfect passive participle of pōnere (“to place”). Etymology templates: {{af|en|ovi-<t:egg>|pōsitus<lang:la><t:placed>}} ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} oviposit (third-person singular simple present oviposits, present participle ovipositing, simple past and past participle oviposited)
  1. (intransitive, zoology or pornography) To lay eggs. Tags: intransitive Categories (topical): Pornography, Zoology Derived forms: oviposition Related terms: ovipositor Translations (to lay eggs): снасям яйца (snasjam jajca) (Bulgarian), ovideporre (Italian), ovipositar (Portuguese), ovopositar (Portuguese), ovipositar (Spanish)

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ovi-<t:egg>",
        "3": "pōsitus<lang:la><t:placed>"
      },
      "expansion": "ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”), perfect passive participle of pōnere (“to place”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oviposits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ovipositing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oviposited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oviposited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oviposit (third-person singular simple present oviposits, present participle ovipositing, simple past and past participle oviposited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with ovi-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Italian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Pornography",
          "orig": "en:Pornography",
          "parents": [
            "Sex",
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "en:Zoology",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "oviposition"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay eggs."
      ],
      "id": "en-oviposit-en-verb-Undv5Hk6",
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "pornography",
          "pornography"
        ],
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, zoology or pornography) To lay eggs."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "ovipositor"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "lifestyle",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "pornography",
        "sexuality",
        "zoology"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "snasjam jajca",
          "sense": "to lay eggs",
          "word": "снасям яйца"
        },
        {
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to lay eggs",
          "word": "ovideporre"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lay eggs",
          "word": "ovipositar"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to lay eggs",
          "word": "ovopositar"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to lay eggs",
          "word": "ovipositar"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "oviposit"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "oviposition"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ovi-<t:egg>",
        "3": "pōsitus<lang:la><t:placed>"
      },
      "expansion": "ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”), perfect passive participle of pōnere (“to place”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "oviposits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ovipositing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oviposited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oviposited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "oviposit (third-person singular simple present oviposits, present participle ovipositing, simple past and past participle oviposited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ovipositor"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms prefixed with ovi-",
        "English verbs",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "en:Pornography",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lay eggs."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "pornography",
          "pornography"
        ],
        [
          "egg",
          "egg"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, zoology or pornography) To lay eggs."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "lifestyle",
        "media",
        "natural-sciences",
        "pornography",
        "sexuality",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "snasjam jajca",
      "sense": "to lay eggs",
      "word": "снасям яйца"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to lay eggs",
      "word": "ovideporre"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lay eggs",
      "word": "ovipositar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to lay eggs",
      "word": "ovopositar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to lay eggs",
      "word": "ovipositar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "oviposit"
}

Download raw JSONL data for oviposit meaning in All languages combined (2.1kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.