uva

See also: Uva, UvA, UVA, ùva, uvä, and üvä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (grape).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuː.və/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uːvə

Noun

uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)

  1. (botany) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/, [ˈu.β̞a]
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

  1. grape

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞ɐ]
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape
    Synonym: bago

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

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈu.va/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uva
  • Hyphenation: ù‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape
  2. (collective noun) grapes

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Anagrams

Latin

ūvae (grapes)

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

Noun

ūva f (genitive ūvae); first declension

  1. (literally):
    1. The fruit of the vine; a grape.
    2. (collective) Grapes.
  2. (transferred sense):
    1. A bunch or cluster of grapes.
    2. A vine.
    3. (botany) (of other plants) A bunch or cluster of fruit.
    4. (zoology) A cluster, like a bunch of grapes, which bees form when they alight in swarming.
    5. (anatomy) The soft palate, the uvula.

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

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

  1. 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

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • üva

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape

Portuguese

uvas

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/
 

  • Rhymes: -uvɐ
  • Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape:
    1. fruit of the genus Vitis
    2. any small fruit similar to a grape
  2. (by extension) grape bunch
    Synonym: cacho
  3. (Brazil, figurative, colloquial) a good-looking thing or person

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

Noun

uva m (plural uvas)

  1. grape (dark purplish-red colour)

Adjective

uva (invariable)

  1. grape (of a dark purplish red colour)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.

Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

  1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
  • Audio (Colombia):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Syllabification: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Derived terms

Further reading

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