oliva

See also: olíva, olivă, and Oliva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oliva (olive).

Noun

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.

Anagrams


Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /uˈli.və/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /uˈli.bə/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /oˈli.va/

Noun

oliva f (plural olives)

  1. olive (fruit)

Derived terms

Further reading


Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈolɪva/

Noun

oliva f

  1. olive (fruit)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. oliva in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese [Term?], from Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

  • (Traditional) IPA(key): /oˈli.ba/
  • (Modern) IPA(key): /ɔˈli.ba/
  • (file)

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

  1. olive (fruit)

Interlingua

Noun

oliva (plural olivas)

  1. olive

Italian

Olive (olives)

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin olīva, from Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or from Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loiwom.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

oliva f (plural olive)

  1. olive (fruit)

oliva m (invariable)

  1. olive (color)

Adjective

oliva (invariable)

  1. olive (color)

Anagrams


Latin

olivae (olives)
oliva (olive tree)

Etymology

From Etruscan 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (eleiva) or from Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, tallow), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, oil)).(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈliː.wa/, [ɔˈliː.wa]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈli.va/, [oˈliː.va]
  • (file)

Noun

olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension

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

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative olīva olīvae
Genitive olīvae olīvārum
Dative olīvae olīvīs
Accusative olīvam olīvās
Ablative olīvā olīvīs
Vocative olīva olīvae

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

References

  • 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

Middle English

Noun

oliva

  1. Alternative form of olyve

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese oliva, from Latin olīva.

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

  1. olive tree
  2. olive (fruit)

Synonyms


Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin olīva (olive).

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

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

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oliva/

Noun

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

  1. olive (fruit)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • oliva in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈliba/, [oˈliβa]

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

  1. olive (fruit)
  2. olive tree
  3. owl

Synonyms

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