uva

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”).^[1]

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.

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

Alternative forms

• üva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈyva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• 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

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

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

1. genitive singular of uvo

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: u‧va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

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