uva
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuː.və/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːvə
Noun
Derived terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “uva”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
References
- “uva”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “uva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuba/, [ˈu.β̞a]
- Rhymes: -uba
- Hyphenation: u‧va
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞ɐ]
- Rhymes: -uba
- Hyphenation: u‧va
Related terms
References
- “uua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “uvas” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “uva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “uva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “uva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Italian

Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.va/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uva
- Hyphenation: ù‧va
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
uva on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
Anagrams
Latin

Etymology
From Proto-Italic *oiwās, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- (“a kind of tree with berries”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄα (óa, “Sorbus domestica”), Old Armenian այգի (aygi, “grapevine”), Proto-Germanic *ī(h)waz (“yew”), Proto-Slavic *jь̀va (“willow”).[1]
Pronunciation
- ūva: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯a/, [ˈuːu̯ä]
- ūva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]
- ūvā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯aː/, [ˈuːu̯äː]
- ūvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]
Inflection
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ūva | ūvae |
Genitive | ūvae | ūvārum |
Dative | ūvae | ūvīs |
Accusative | ūvam | ūvās |
Ablative | ūvā | ūvīs |
Vocative | ūva | ūvae |
Derived terms
- ūvula (diminutive)
Descendants
- Aromanian: auã
- → Asturian: uva
- Corsican: uva
- Dalmatian: joiva
- → English: uva
- Esperanto: uvo
- French: uve
- Friulian: ue, → uve
- Galician: uva
- → Italian: uva
- → Occitan: uva
- → Piedmontese: uva
- Portuguese: uva
- Romanian: auă
- Romansch: iva, ieuva, uia, iua
- Sardinian: úa
- → Sicilian: uva
- → Spanish: uva
- Venetian: ua, ùa, ova
References
- “uva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 648
Portuguese

Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian uva and Romanian auă.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈu.bɐ/ [ˈu.βɐ]
- Rhymes: -uvɐ
- Hyphenation: u‧va
Noun
uva f (plural uvas)
Derived terms
- muita parra e pouca uva
- pôr as uvas em pisa a alguém
- uva de enforcado
- uva passa
- uva-bordô
- uva-branca
- uva-brava
- uva-crespa
- uva-da-américa
- uva-da-praia
- uva-da-serra
- uva-de-amur
- uva-de-cão
- uva-de-cheiro
- uva-de-espinho
- uva-de-gato
- uva-de-gentio
- uva-de-mato-grosso
- uva-de-mesa
- uva-de-rato
- uva-de-urso
- uva-do-canadá
- uva-do-inverno
- uva-do-japão
- uva-do-mar
- uva-do-mato
- uva-do-monte
- uva-dos-passarinhos
- uva-espim
- uva-itália
- uva-rosê
- uva-rubi
- uva-tinta
- uva-tintureira
- uvaça
- uvada
- uval
- uvalha
- uveira
Descendants
- → Apalaí: uwa
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.
Further reading
- “uva” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “uva” in Dicionário Online de Português.
- “uva” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “uva” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “uva” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
- “uva” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -uba
- Syllabification: u‧va
Derived terms
- azúcar de uva
- como una uva
- dar las uvas
- de pura uva
- de uvas a peras
- estar de mala uva
- estar hecho una uva
- hilo de uvas
- mala uva
- no entrar por uvas
- nos van a dar las uvas
- uva camarona
- uva de anís
- uva de gato
- uva de perro
- uva de playa
- uva de raposa
- uva espina
- uvas de la suerte
- uvas de mar
Related terms
Further reading
- “uva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014