oliva

Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive.

oliva

1. (anatomy) olivary body
   • 1998, R. Nieuwenhuys, Hendrik Jan Donkelaar, Charles Nicholson, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: With Posters (page 1562)

     The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.

• Ivalo, Viola, viola, voila, voilà, volia

Inherited from Latin olīva.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /uˈli.və/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /uˈli.bə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/

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oliva f (plural olives)

1. olive (fruit)

• oliva negra
• oliva verda
• olivella
• oliver
• olivera

• “oliva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “oliva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “oliva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oliva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Via German Olive, from Latin olīva, from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈolɪva]

oliva f

1. olive (fruit)

• olivový
• olivovník

• oliva in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• oliva in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• ouliva

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese oliva, from Latin olīva. The preservation of intervocalic /l/ is irregular, so it was perhaps borrowed from Mozarabic. Modern pronunciation is adapted from Spanish, since olive and olive oil is not produced in most of Galicia.

• (Traditional) IPA^(key): [oˈli.βɐ]
• (Modern) IPA^(key): [ɔˈli.βɐ]

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oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

• oliveira (“olive tree”)

• “oliva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “oliva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ouliu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “oliva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “oliva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “oliva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

oliva (plural olivas)

1. olive

• uliva

From Latin olīva, from Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loiwom.

• IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/

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• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: o‧lì‧va

oliva f (plural olive)

1. olive (fruit)

oliva m (invariable)

1. olive (color)

oliva (invariable)

1. olive (color)

• Viola, ovali, viola, voilà, volai

From Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) (whence 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀𐌍𐌀 (eleivana, “of oil”)) or from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), most likely from Pre-Greek (according to Beekes) or, much more questionably, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loywom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)).(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oˈliː.u̯a/, [ɔˈlʲiːu̯ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/, [oˈliːvä]

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olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension

1. an olive (fruit)
2. an olive tree
3. (poetic) an olive branch

First-declension noun.

• (olive fruit): olea
• (olive tree): olea, oleaster, oleastrum

• “oliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “oliva”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐλαία”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401

• viola

oliva

1. Alternative form of olyve

Learned borrowing from Latin olīva.[1][2]

• Hyphenation: o‧li‧va

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: oliveira

2. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: azeitona

• olival
• olivedo

• oliveira
• oliveirense

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) uliva
• (Surmiran) uleiva

From Latin olīva (“olive”).

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) olive (fruit)

Via German Olive, from Latin olīva, from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía).

• IPA^(key): /oliva/

oliva f (genitive singular olivy, nominative plural olivy, genitive plural olív, declension pattern of žena)

1. olive (fruit)

• olivový
• olivovo
• olivovník

• oliva in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

From Latin olīva.

• IPA^(key): /oˈliba/ [oˈli.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: o‧li‧va

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: aceituna

2. olive tree

   Synonym: olivo

3. owl

   Synonym: lechuza

• aceite de oliva

• olivo
• olivar

• “oliva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014