# uva
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ūva (“grape”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈjuː.və/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːvə

### Noun

uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)
* (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

* 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.

### Anagrams

* AUV, UAV, vau

## Asturian
### Etymology

From Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
* Rhymes: -uba
* Hyphenation: u‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uves)
* grape

## Fala
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuba/
* Rhymes: -uba
* Syllabification: u‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uvas)
* grape

### See also

* bagu

### References

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

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese uva, from Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -uba
* Hyphenation: u‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uvas)
* grape
    Synonym: bago

#### Related terms

* úvula

### References

* “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

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈu.va/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uva
* Hyphenation: ù‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uve)
* grape
* (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
### 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: /ˈuː.u̯a/, [ˈuːu̯ä]
* ūva: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]
* ūvā: (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈuː.u̯aː/, [ˈuːu̯äː]
* ūvā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈu.va/, [ˈuːvä]

### Noun

ūva f (genitive ūvae); first declension
* (literally):
** The fruit of the vine; a grape.
** (collective) Grapes.
* (transferred sense):
** A bunch or cluster of grapes.
** A vine.
** (botany) (of other plants) A bunch or cluster of fruit.
** (zoology) A cluster, like a bunch of grapes, which bees form when they alight in swarming.
** (anatomy) The soft palate, the uvula.

#### Inflection

First-declension noun.

#### 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
* Italian: uva
* Occitan: uva
* Old Galician-Portuguese: uva
** Fala: uva
** Galician: uva
** Portuguese: uva
* Piedmontese: uva
* Romanian: auă
* Romansch: iva, ieuva, uia, iua
* Sardinian: úa
* Sicilian: uva
* Spanish: uva
* Venetan: ua, ùa, ova
* → English: uva

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ūva”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 648

### Further reading

* “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

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuβa/

### Noun

uva f (plural uvas)
* grape

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* 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

## Piedmontese
### Alternative forms

* üva

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈyva/

### Noun

uva f (plural uve)
* grape

## Portuguese
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈu.vɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈu.vɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈu.va/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈu.vɐ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈu.vɐ/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈu.bɐ/ [ˈu.βɐ]
* (São Miguel, Azores) IPA: [ˈyvɐ]
* Rhymes: -uvɐ, (Northern Portugal) -ubɐ
* Hyphenation: u‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uvas)
* grape:
** fruit of the genus Vitis
** any small fruit similar to a grape
* (by extension) grape bunch
    Synonym: cacho
* (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)
* grape (dark purplish-red colour)

### Adjective

uva (invariable)
* 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, 2008–2025
* “uva”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ува)
* genitive singular of uvo

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin ūva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈuba/ [ˈu.β̞a]
* Audio (Colombia):(file)
* Rhymes: -uba
* Syllabification: u‧va

### Noun

uva f (plural uvas)
* 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

#### Descendants

* → Paraujano: uuwa

### 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