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uva

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

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

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 edit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Anagrams edit

Asturian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

uva f (plural uves)

  1. grape

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape
    Synonym: bago

Related terms edit

References edit

  • “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 edit

 

Etymology edit

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape
  2. (collective noun) grapes

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Further reading edit

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

 
ūvae (grapes)

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

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 edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ūva ūvae
Genitive ūvae ūvārum
Dative ūvae ūvīs
Accusative ūvam ūvās
Ablative ūvā ūvīs
Vocative ūva ūvae

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Descendants edit

  • 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 edit

  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 edit

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Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape

Portuguese edit

 
Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pt
 
uvas

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

 
 

  • Rhymes: -uvɐ
  • Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun edit

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

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Descendants edit

  • → Apalaí: uwa

Noun edit

uva m (plural uvas)

  1. grape (dark purplish-red colour)

Adjective edit

uva (invariable)

  1. grape (of a dark purplish red colour)

Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.

Further reading edit

Serbo-Croatian edit

Noun edit

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

  1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation edit

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

Noun edit

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Derived terms edit

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Further reading edit

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