latin phrase

[linty]

please does anyone know the latin literall meaning off

from the egg

thank you

[barender]

I think it's Ab Ova

[crofter]

It's ab ovo - see recent postings

[wideboy]

For the meaning:-

ab ovo \ab-OH-voh\, adverb:
From the beginning.

I will begin ab ovo -- at the very beginning.
-- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

The performers do not have to discover these techniques and processes ab ovo; they learn them from the previous generation, who learned them from their predecessors, and so on.



(Latin �from the egg�)

in literature, the practice of beginning a poetic narrative at the earliest possible chronological point. The Latin poet and critic Horace approvingly notes in Ars poetica that Homer does not begin a tale of the Trojan War with the twin egg from which Helen was born but rather in the middle of events.