uva
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuː.və/
- Rhymes: -uːvə
Noun
uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)
- (botany) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
Asturian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuba/, [ˈu.β̞a]
- Hyphenation: u‧va
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈuβɐ]
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
Latin

Etymology
Some refer to ūmeō, others to Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- (“yew, willow, grapes, vine”), with Ancient Greek ὄα (óa, “Sorbus domestica”) as cognate, and Proto-Germanic *ī(h)waz, Proto-Slavic *jь̀va (“willow”).
Pronunciation
- ūva: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯a/, [ˈuːu̯ä]
- ūva: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]
Audio (Classical) (file)
- ūvā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯aː/, [ˈuːu̯äː]
- ūvā: (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
- 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
Portuguese

Etymology
From Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian uva and Romanian auă.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
- Hyphenation: u‧va
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
Audio (Colombia) (file) - Rhymes: -uba
- Syllabification: u‧va
Derived terms
- dar las uvas
- de uvas a peras
- estar de mala uva
- estar hecho una uva
- mala uva
- no entrar por uvas
- nos van a dar las uvas
- uva espina
- uvas de la suerte
Related terms
Further reading
- “uva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014