uva

See also: UvA and UVA

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

Noun

uva (plural uvae or uvæ)

1. (botany) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Anagrams

• AUV, UAV, vau

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

1. grape

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈuβɐ]

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

Related terms

• úvula

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ù‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape
2. (collective noun) grapes

Derived terms

• uvetta

 

Related terms

• ugola
• uva da tavola
• uva passa
• uva spina
• uva sultanina
• uva ursina
• uvaccia
• uvaceo
• uvaggio
• uvea
• uveite
• uvifero
• uvina

 

See also

• vino
• vite

Further reading

• uva on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

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Latin

ūvae (grapes)

Etymology

Some refer to ūmeō, others to Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHweh₂ (“multicolored, reddish”), with Ancient Greek ὄα (óa, “Sorbus domestica”) as cognate.

Pronunciation

• ūva: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.u̯a/, [ˈuːu̯ä]
• ūva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]

• Audio (Classical)

  (file)

• ūvā: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈuː.u̯aː/, [ˈuːu̯äː]
• ūvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]

Noun

ūva f (genitive ūvae); first declension

1. grape

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Derived terms

• ūvula

Related terms

• ūvēns
• ūvēscō
• ūvidus
• ūvifer

Descendants

• Aromanian: auã
• Asturian: uva
• Dalmatian: joiva
• Italian: uva
• Friulian: ue, uve
• Galician: uva

• Occitan: uva
• Portuguese: uva
• Romanian: auă
• Romansch: iva, ieuva, uia, iua
• Sardinian: úa
• Sicilian: uva
• Spanish: uva
• Venetian: ua, ùa, ova

Noun

(deprecated template usage) ūvā

1. ablative singular of ūva

References

• “ὄα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape

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Portuguese

uvas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/, /ˈu.vɐ/
• Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural s)

1. grape (fruit).

Related terms

• úvula
• videira

Descendants

• Apalaí: uwa

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
• Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

Derived terms

• dar las uvas
• de uvas a peras
• estar de mala uva
• estar hecho una uva
• mala uva
• no entrar por uvas
• nos van a dar las uvas
• uva espina
• uvas de la suerte

 

Related terms

• úvula