ab ovo
adv.
at first, from the start, before everything
Ab ovo
Ab ovo (
Latin: "from the
egg") is a reference to one of the twin eggs of
Leda and
Zeus disguised as a swan from which
Helen was born. Had
Leda not laid the egg,
Helen would not have been born, so
Paris could not have eloped with her, so there would have been no
Trojan War etc.The
English literary use of the phrase comes from
Horace's
Ars Poetica, where he describes his ideal epic poet, who "does not begin the Trojan War from the double egg" (nec gemino bellum Troianum orditur ab ouo), the absolute beginning of events, the earliest possible chronological point, but snatches the listener into the middle of things (
in medias res).
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Ab ovo
From the egg
ab ovo
Synonyms and related words:
ab initio, aborigine, afresh, again, anew, as new, at first, at the start, basal, basic, before everything, chiefly, constituent, constitutive, de novo, elemental, elementary, essential, first, first and foremost, first thing, firstly, freshly, from scratch, from the beginning, fundamental, gut, in the beginning, initially, mainly, material, new, newly, of the essence, once more, original, originally, primal, primarily, primary, primitive, primo, principally, radical, substantial, substantive, underlying
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
ab ovo
Eng: ab ovo
Urdu: بِالکُل اِبتدا سے ۔