Olive
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Olive
- 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.
- A surname.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A community in the city of Orange, Orange County, California.
- A township and unincorporated community therein, in St. Joseph County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Dallas County, Missouri, named after a Baptist church.
- An unincorporated community in Powder River County, Montana.
- A town in Ulster County, New York, from the bible story of dove and olive branch.
- An unincorporated community in Creek County, Oklahoma, from the girl's name.
- An unincorporated community in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Olive Township.
Related terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Olive
- a female given name from English
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German olīve, borrowed from Latin olīva, possibly borrowed from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva).
From Middle High German olīve, borrowed from Latin oliva.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Olive f (genitive Olive, plural Oliven)
- olive (fruit)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Olive [feminine]
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- →? Hunsrik: Oliv
References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Olive”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Further reading
[edit]Hunsrik
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Olive
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