uva

See also: Uva, UvA, UVA, ùva, uvä, and üvä

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.və/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːvə

Noun

uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)

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

Related terms

• uva ursi

 

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

References

• “uva”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “uva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• AUV, UAV, vau

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

1. grape

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞ɐ]
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

   Synonym: bago

Related terms

• úvula

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “uua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “uvas”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “uva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “uva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “uva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uva
• 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

Anagrams

• vau

Latin

ūvae (grapes)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *oiwā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw- (“a kind of tree with berries”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὄα (óa, “Sorbus domestica”), Old Armenian այգի (aygi, “grapevine”), Proto-Germanic *ī(h)waz (“yew”), Proto-Slavic *jь̀va (“willow”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ūva f (genitive ūvae); first declension

1. (literally):
   1. The fruit of the vine; a grape.
   2. (collective) Grapes.
2. (transferred sense):
   1. A bunch or cluster of grapes.
   2. A vine.
   3. (botany) (of other plants) A bunch or cluster of fruit.
   4. (zoology) A cluster, like a bunch of grapes, which bees form when they alight in swarming.
   5. (anatomy) The soft palate, the uvula.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ūva	ūvae
genitive	ūvae	ūvārum
dative	ūvae	ūvīs
accusative	ūvam	ūvās
ablative	ūvā	ūvīs
vocative	ūva	ūvae

Derived terms

• ūvula (diminutive)

Related terms

• ūvēns
• ūvēscō
• ūvidus
• ūvifer

Descendants

• Aromanian: auã
• Asturian: uva
• Corsican: uva
• Dalmatian: joiva
• Esperanto: uvo
• French: uve
• Friulian: ue, uve
• Galician: uva
• Italian: uva
• Occitan: uva
• Piedmontese: uva
• Portuguese: uva
• Romanian: auă
• Romansch: iva, ieuva, uia, iua
• Sardinian: úa
• Sicilian: uva
• Spanish: uva
• Venetan: ua, ùa, ova
• → English: uva

References

• “uva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape

Portuguese

uvas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈu.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈu.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈu.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈu.bɐ/ [ˈu.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -uvɐ, (Northern Portugal) -ubɐ
• Hyphenation: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape:
   1. fruit of the genus Vitis
   2. any small fruit similar to a grape
2. (by extension) grape bunch

   Synonym: cacho

3. (Brazil, figurative, colloquial) a good-looking thing or person

Derived terms

• muita parra e pouca uva
• pôr as uvas em pisa a alguém
• uva de enforcado
• uva passa
• uva-bordô
• uva-branca
• uva-brava
• uva-crespa
• uva-da-américa
• uva-da-praia
• uva-da-serra
• uva-de-amur
• uva-de-cão
• uva-de-cheiro
• uva-de-espinho
• uva-de-gato
• uva-de-gentio
• uva-de-mato-grosso
• uva-de-mesa
• uva-de-rato
• uva-de-urso
• uva-do-canadá
• uva-do-inverno
• uva-do-japão
• uva-do-mar
• uva-do-mato
• uva-do-monte
• uva-dos-passarinhos
• uva-espim
• uva-itália
• uva-rosê
• uva-rubi
• uva-tinta
• uva-tintureira
• uvaça
• uvada
• uval
• uvalha
• uveira

 

Related terms

• úvula

 

Descendants

• → Apalaí: uwa

Noun

uva m (plural uvas)

1. grape (dark purplish-red colour)

Adjective

uva (invariable)

1. grape (of a dark purplish red colour)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.

Further reading

• “uva”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “uva”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
• “uva”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
• “uva”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “uva”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “uva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

Derived terms

• azúcar de uva
• como una uva
• dar las uvas
• de pura uva
• de uvas a peras
• estar de mala uva
• estar hecho una uva
• hilo de uvas
• mala uva
• no entrar por uvas
• nos van a dar las uvas
• uva camarona
• uva de anís
• uva de gato
• uva de perro
• uva de playa
• uva de raposa
• uva espina
• uvas de la suerte
• uvas de mar

 

Related terms

• úvula

 

Further reading

• “uva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10