Olive

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See also: olive and olīve

English

Etymology

Medieval form of the Latin saint's name Oliva "olive"; revived in the 19th century when flower and plant names became fashionable. The surname is topographical, often representing an Anglicization of continental European surnames such as Spanish Oliva.

Proper noun

Olive

  1. A female given name from English.
    • 1842 Alfred Tennyson, The Talking Oak:
      And hear me swear a solemn oath, / That only by thy side / Will I to Olive plight my troth, / And gain her for my bride.
    • 1850 Dinah Craik, Olive, Chapman and Hall, page 26:
      "Elspie, I have a thought! The baby shall be christened Olive!"
      "It's a strange, heathen name, Mrs. Rothesay."
      "Not at all. Listen how I chanced to think of it. This very morning, just before you came to waken me, I had such a queer, delicious dream. [ - - - ] Then I looked up, after awhile, and saw standing at the foot of the bed a little angel—a child-angel—with a green olive-branch in its hand. [ - - - ] "
    • 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, pages 227-228:
      There was Olive, a soft drowsy girl who didn't like me because I called her Olive Oyl. Even after I was made to apologize she didn't like me.
  2. A surname.
  3. (rare) A male given name from English.

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Olive.

Proper noun

Olive

  1. a female given name from English

German

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Etymology

From Middle High German olīve, borrowed from Latin oliva.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈliːvə/
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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

Olive f (genitive Olive, plural Oliven)

  1. olive (fruit)

Declension

Declension of Olive [feminine]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Olive die Oliven
genitive einer der Olive der Oliven
dative einer der Olive den Oliven
accusative eine die Olive die Oliven

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Olive”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Further reading

  • “Olive” in Duden online
  • “Olive” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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