oliva

Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive.

oliva

1. (anatomy) olivary body
   • 1998, R. Nieuwenhuys, Hendrik Jan Donkelaar, Charles Nicholson, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: With Posters, page 1562:

     The medial part of the ventral lamina forms the most rostral pole of the oliva, the dorsal lamina the most caudal one.

• Ivalo, Viola, viola, voila, voilà, volia

Inherited from Latin olīva.

• IPA^(key): /oˈliba/
• Syllabification: o‧li‧va
• Rhymes: -iba

oliva f

1. olive (fruit)

• oliva negra
• oliva verde
• olivera

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

Inherited from Latin olīva.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈli.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [uˈli.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈli.va]

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oliva f (plural olives)

1. olive (fruit)

• oliva negra
• oliva verda
• olivella
• oliver
• olivera

• “oliva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “oliva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “oliva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “oliva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from German Olive, from Latin olīva, from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈolɪva]

oliva f (relational adjective olivový)

1. olive (fruit)

• “oliva”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “oliva”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

• ouliva

From Old Galician-Portuguese oliva, from Latin olīva. The preservation of intervocalic /l/ is irregular, so it was perhaps borrowed from Mozarabic. Modern pronunciation is adapted from Spanish, since olive and olive oil is not produced in most of Galicia.

• (Traditional) IPA^(key): [oˈli.βɐ]
• (Modern) IPA^(key): [ɔˈli.βɐ]

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oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

• oliveira (“olive tree”)

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

oliva (plural olivas)

1. olive

• uliva

From Latin olīva, from Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loywom.

• IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/

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• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: o‧lì‧va

oliva f (plural olive)

1. olive (fruit)

oliva m (invariable)

1. olive (color)

oliva (invariable)

1. olive (color)

• Viola, ovali, viola, voilà, volai

From Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) (whence 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀𐌍𐌀 (eleivana, “of oil”)), itself from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), or perhaps from the same source. In any case, most likely from a Mediterranean Pre-Greek source,^[1] possibly Proto-Berber *wlw (“wild olive”).^[2] More questionably, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loywom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɔˈliː.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [oˈliː.va]

olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension

1. an olive (fruit)
2. an olive tree
3. (poetic) an olive branch

First-declension noun.

• (olive fruit): olea
• (olive tree): olea, oleaster, oleastrum

• “oliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “oliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “oliva”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• viola

oliva

1. alternative form of olyve

Learned borrowing from Latin olīva.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: o‧li‧va

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: oliveira

2. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: azeitona

• olival
• olivedo

• oliveira
• oliveirense

• uliva (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• uleiva (Surmiran)

From Latin olīva (“olive”).

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. (Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) olive (fruit)

Via German Olive, from Latin olīva, from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía).

• IPA^(key): /oliva/

oliva f (genitive singular olivy, nominative plural olivy, genitive plural olív, declension pattern of žena)

1. olive (fruit)

• olivový
• olivovo
• olivovník

• “oliva”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Inherited from Latin olīva.

• IPA^(key): /oˈliba/ [oˈli.β̞a]

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• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: o‧li‧va

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: aceituna

2. olive tree

   Synonym: olivo

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