"ab ovo usque ad mala" meaning in Latin

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “from the egg to the apples”, from the traditional foods that began and ended a Roman supper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla (not comparable)",
      "name": "la-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But Meier has resort to a desperate remedy there when he orders such blisters as these supposedly later interpolations to be lanced; for the shorter text is strewn throughout that chapter in such a way that from beginning to end it is developed by continuous interpretation, and whatever it may be and however much there is, its accumulation shall be seen to constitute one complete whole.",
          "ref": "1843, Friedrich H. C. Düsterdieck, Quae de Ignatianarum epistolarum authentia, page 31",
          "text": "Desperatam vero isti loco adhibet medicinam Meierus, cum quasi recentiora assumenta ejusmodi ampullas jubeat resecari; toti enim isti capiti brevior textus ita substratus est, ut ab ovo usque ad mala continua interpretatione amplificetur, atque congeries ista plane integra, quae quantaque sit, videatur.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "from the beginning to the end; from soup to nuts."
      ],
      "id": "en-ab_ovo_usque_ad_mala-la-adv-TJ9YKWWq",
      "links": [
        [
          "beginning",
          "beginning"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ],
        [
          "from soup to nuts",
          "from soup to nuts"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) from the beginning to the end; from soup to nuts."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ab ˈoː.u̯oː ˈuːs.kʷe ad ˈmaː.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äb ˈoːu̯oː ˈuːs̠kʷɛ äd̪ ˈmäːɫ̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ab ˈo.vo ˈus.kwe ad ˈma.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äb ˈɔːvo ˈuskwe äd̪ ˈmäːlä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ab ovo usque ad mala"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Literally, “from the egg to the apples”, from the traditional foods that began and ended a Roman supper.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla",
        "2": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ab ōvō ūsque ad māla (not comparable)",
      "name": "la-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin adverbs",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin idioms",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin multiword terms",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with quotations",
        "Latin uncomparable adverbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "But Meier has resort to a desperate remedy there when he orders such blisters as these supposedly later interpolations to be lanced; for the shorter text is strewn throughout that chapter in such a way that from beginning to end it is developed by continuous interpretation, and whatever it may be and however much there is, its accumulation shall be seen to constitute one complete whole.",
          "ref": "1843, Friedrich H. C. Düsterdieck, Quae de Ignatianarum epistolarum authentia, page 31",
          "text": "Desperatam vero isti loco adhibet medicinam Meierus, cum quasi recentiora assumenta ejusmodi ampullas jubeat resecari; toti enim isti capiti brevior textus ita substratus est, ut ab ovo usque ad mala continua interpretatione amplificetur, atque congeries ista plane integra, quae quantaque sit, videatur.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "from the beginning to the end; from soup to nuts."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "beginning",
          "beginning"
        ],
        [
          "end",
          "end"
        ],
        [
          "from soup to nuts",
          "from soup to nuts"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) from the beginning to the end; from soup to nuts."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ab ˈoː.u̯oː ˈuːs.kʷe ad ˈmaː.la/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äb ˈoːu̯oː ˈuːs̠kʷɛ äd̪ ˈmäːɫ̪ä]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ab ˈo.vo ˈus.kwe ad ˈma.la/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[äb ˈɔːvo ˈuskwe äd̪ ˈmäːlä]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ab ovo usque ad mala"
}