uva

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (grape).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjuː.və/
  • 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  • uva in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • uva at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams


Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

  1. grape

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈuβɐ]

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

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]
    • (file)
  • ūvā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuː.u̯aː/, [ˈuːu̯äː]
  • ūvā: (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]

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

References


Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • üva

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape

Portuguese

uvas

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

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape (fruit)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Apalaí: uwa

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/, [ˈuː.β̞ä]

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape
    Synonym: achina
  2. (collective noun) grapes (fruit)

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

  1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Derived terms

Further reading

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