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uva

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

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

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Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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Etymology

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From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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uva f (plural uves)

  1. grape

Fala

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/
  • Rhymes: -uba
  • Syllabification: u‧va

Noun

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uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

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References

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  • Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape
    Synonym: bago
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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin ūva.

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Noun

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uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape
  2. (collective noun) grapes

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Anagrams

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Latin

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ūvae (grapes)

Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *oiwā, 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]

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Noun

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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.

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First-declension noun.

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

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  • Aromanian: auã
  • Asturian: uva
  • Corsican: uva
  • Dalmatian: joiva
  • Esperanto: uvo
  • French: uve
  • Friulian: ue, uve
  • Italian: uva
  • Occitan: uva
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: uva
  • Piedmontese: uva
  • Romanian: auă
  • Romansch: iva, ieuva, uia, iua
  • Sardinian: úa
  • Sicilian: uva
  • Spanish: uva
  • Venetan: ua, ùa, ova
  • → English: uva

References

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  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ūva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 648

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ūva.

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Noun

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uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Descendants

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  • Fala: uva
  • Galician: uva
  • Portuguese: uva (see there for further descendants)

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Piedmontese

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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uvas

Etymology

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

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Noun

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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

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  • → Apalaí: uwa

Noun

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uva m (plural uvas)

  1. grape (dark purplish-red colour)

Adjective

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uva (invariable)

  1. grape (of a dark purplish red colour)

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.

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Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

  1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin ūva.

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Noun

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uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

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Descendants

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