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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

  1. grape

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈuβɐ]

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ù‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

  1. grape
  2. (collective noun) grapes

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Latin
ūvae (grapes)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation 1

Noun

ūva f (genitive ūvae); first declension

  1. grape
Inflection

First declension.

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

Derived terms
Descendants

Pronunciation 2

Noun

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

Portuguese
uvas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈu.va/, /ˈu.vɐ/
  • Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape (fruit).

Descendants

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈuba/, [ˈuβa]

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

  1. grape

Derived terms
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