uva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.və/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• 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/,
• 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/
• 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/

• Audio

  (file)

• 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/,
• ūva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/,
• ūvā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.u̯aː/,
• ūvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/,

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

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

uva

Wikipedia ^pt

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/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• 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