olive

From Middle English olyve, borrowed from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)).[1]

• enPR: ŏl'ĭv, IPA^(key): /ˈɒlɪv/

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olive (plural olives)

1. An tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
2. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
3. The wood of the olive tree.
4. A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.

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5. (anatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
6. A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
7. (cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.

   a beef olive

   olives of veal

8. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
9. (Britain, dialectal) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.

olive (comparative more olive, superlative most olive)

1. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.
   • 1907, Harold Edward Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict‎:

     Appleby […] rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.

• oleaster
• olivenite
• olivewood
• Olivia
• olivine

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• Castile soap
• Gethsemane
• Wiktionary appendix of colours

• lovie, voile

From Old French olive, from Latin olīva.

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.liv/

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olive f (plural olives)

1. olive

• olivier

• “olive” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• viole, violé, voile, voilé

• Rhymes: -ive

olive f

1. plural of oliva

• Elvio, ovile, viole, voile

olive

1. Alternative form of olyve

Borrowed from Latin oliva.

olīve f

1. olive

From Latin olīva.

olive m or f

1. olive tree

olive f (oblique plural olives, nominative singular olive, nominative plural olives)

1. olive

• English: olive (borrowed)
• French: olive

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔlivɛ/

olive

1. dative singular of oliva
2. locative singular of oliva