uva

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.və/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːvə

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.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “uva”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “uva”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• AUV, UAV, vau

From Latin ūva.

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

uva f (plural uves)

1. grape

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: u‧va

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

• bagu

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

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

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

   Synonym: bago

• úvula

• “uva” in DIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego, Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013.
• 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
• “uva” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• 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
• “uva”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• 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

Inherited from Latin ūva.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.va/^[2]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uva
• Hyphenation: ù‧va

uva f (usually uncountable, plural uve)

1. grapes

• vau

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]

• ūva: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.wa]
• ūva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.va]
• ūvā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.waː]
• ūvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.va]

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.

First-declension noun.

• ūvula (diminutive)

• ūvēns
• ūvēscō
• ūvidus
• ūvifer

• “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

Inherited from Latin ūva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuβa/

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

• Fala: uva
• Galician: uva
• Portuguese: uva (see there for further descendants)

• 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: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• üva

• IPA^(key): /ˈyva/

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape

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

• (São Miguel, Azores) IPA^(key): [ˈyvɐ]
• Rhymes: -uvɐ, (Northern Portugal) -ubɐ
• Hyphenation: u‧va

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

• → Apalaí: uwa

uva m (plural uvas)

1. grape (dark purplish-red colour)

uva (invariable)

1. grape (of a dark purplish red colour)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:uva.

• “uva”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “uva”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “uva”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “uva”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “uva”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “uva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)

1. genitive singular of uvo

Inherited from Latin ūva.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -uba
• Syllabification: u‧va

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

• → Paraujano: uuwa

• “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], 10 December 2024