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Definitions and meaning of uva

uva

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.

Derived terms

References

  • “uva”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “uva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • AUV, UAV, vau

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

Related terms

  • úvula

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/
  • Rhymes: -uva
  • Hyphenation: ù‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape
  2. (collective noun) grapes

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

  • vino
  • vite

Further reading

  • uva on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it

Anagrams

  • vau

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).

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]

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.

Derived terms

  • ūvula (diminutive)

Related terms

  • ūvēns
  • ūvēscō
  • ūvidus
  • ūvifer

Descendants

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

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • üva

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Italian uva and Romanian auă.

Pronunciation

  • 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

Related terms

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

  • “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

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

  1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

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