“egg” in Latin

ovum: a new-laid egg, ovum recens (opposed to ovum vetustum or requietum): a raw egg, ovum crudum: an addle-egg, a wind-egg, ovum irritum or urinum: ovum silens (in which no motion of the young bird is heard): the eggs are addle, ova carent animalibus (Col.): an egg in which the young bird is formed prematurely, ovum abortivum: a hard-boiled egg, ovum durum: a soft-boiled egg, ovum molle: very soft-boiled, ovum sorbile (so that one can sup it up): fried eggs, ova assa; ova ex butyro or ex oleo fricta: to lay eggs, ova gignere, parere (Cic.), ponere, edere (Col.): to lay small eggs, ova exigua facere: to sit upon eggs, ovis incubare (Col.; or ova incubare, Varr.); ova eniti (Col., 8, 11, to hatch); ovis excludere pullos (to hatch): to place eggs under a hen, ova gallinae supponere (Cic.): ova gallinae (incubanda) subjicere (Plin.): they are as like as one egg to another, nec ovum ovo similius (Plin.): to tread as if he were walking on eggs, ire suspenso gradu; pedem summis digitis suspendere. The white of an egg, album or albumen ovi, albus ovi liquor: ovi candidum or candor: the yolk, luteum: vitellus. PROV. To teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs, sus Minervam, ut aiunt (ὗς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν, Cic.); malleus manubrio sapientior (Plaut., Epid., 3, 8, 87).