# olive
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin olīva (“olive”), from Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) or Proto-Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic лои (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian եւղ (ewł, “oil”)). Doublet of oliva. Displaced native Old English eleberġe, literally "oil berry."

### Pronunciation

* (UK) enPR: ŏl'ĭv, IPA: /ˈɒl.ɪv/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) enPR: ä'lĭv, IPA: /ˈɑ.lɪv/
** Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

olive (plural olives)
* A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
* The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
** 2010, Mary Ellen Snodgrass, Peter Carey: A Literary Companion, page 100:Trevor, like an Aussie outbacker, eats snacks and a pickup meal of bread, cantaloupe, olives, mangoes, and melon.
* The wood of the olive tree.
* A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.
    olive:
* (neuroanatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
* A component of a plumbing compression joint; a ring which is placed between the nut and the pipe and compressed during fastening to provide a seal.
* (cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.
    a beef olive
    olives of veal
* Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
* (UK, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird of genus Haematopus.

#### Derived terms

* autumn olive
* beef olive
* black olive
* Bohemian olive
* Chinese olive
* dwarf olive
* first olive out of the bottle
* first olive out of the jar
* green olive
* holly olive
* kalamata olive
* Mission olive
* mock olive
* Mount Olive
* netted olive
* Niçoise olive
* olive baboon (Papio anubis)
* olive-backed oriole
* olive-backed pipit
* olive-backed sunbird
* olive-backed thrush
* olive barb (Systomus sarana)
* olive bee-eater (Merops superciliosus)
* olive box
* olive-branch
* olive branch
* olive-branched
* olive bread
* olive bulbul (Iole viridescens)
* olive burger
* olive coleus (Coleus scutellariodes)
* olive colobus (Procolobus verus)
* olive crown
* olive drab
* olive finch (Arremon castaneiceps)
* olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus)
* olive fly
* olive flyrobin (Microeca flavovirescens)
* olive fruit fly (Dacus oleae)
* olive green
* Olive Green
* olive grove
* olive honeyeater (Lichmera argentauris)
* olive ibis (Bostrychia olivacea)
* olive juice
* olive knot (Pseudomonas savastonoi)
* olive lace bug (Froggattia olivina)
* olive loaf
* olive long-tailed cuckoo (Cercococcyx olivinus)
* olive mangrove
* olive marsh snake (Natriciteres olivacea)
* olive moth (Prays oleellus)
* olive oil
* olive ore
* olive oropendola (Psarocolius bifasciatus)
* olive plum (Elaeodendron)
* olive pomace oil
* olive python (Liasis olivaceus)
* olive ridley
* olive ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea)
* olive scab
* olive scale
* olive sea snake (Aipysurus laevis)
* olive shell, olive snail (Olividae spp.)
* olive-sided flycatcher
* olive sparrow (Arremonops rufivirgatus spp.)
* olive spinetail (Cranioleuca obsoleta)
* olive sunbird (Cyanomitra olivacea)
* olive thrush (Turdus olivaceus)
* olive tree
* olive tubercle (Pseudomonas savastonoi)
* olive warbler (Peucedramus taeniatus)
* olive whistler (Pachycephala olivacea)
* olive woodpecker (Dendropicos griseocephalus)
* olive wreath
* olivey
* queen olive
* Russian olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia)
* sand olive
* spurge olive
* tea olive
* wild olive

#### Translations
### Adjective

olive (comparative more olive, superlative most olive)
* Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.
** 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:Appleby […] rose from his seat when Morales came in. He shook hands urbanely, unbuckled his sword, and laid his kepi on the table, and then sat down with an expression of concern in his olive face which Appleby fancied was assumed.
** 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College‎, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.$^{196}$

#### Related terms

* oil
* oleaster
* olivenite
* olivewood
* Olivia
* olivine

#### Translations
### See also

* à la grecque
* Castile soap
* Gethsemane
* Wiktionary appendix of colours

### References

* ↑ Radoslav Katičić, Ancient Languages of the Balkans, Part One (Paris: Mouton, 1976).

### Anagrams

* lovie, viole, voile

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French olive, from Latin olīva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔ.liv/
* Audio (France):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

olive f (plural olives)
* olive

#### Derived terms

* huile d’olive
* olive noire
* olive verte
* olivier

#### Descendants

* Romanian: olivă

### Further reading

* “olive”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* viole, violé, voile, voilé

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /oˈli.ve/
* Rhymes: -ive
* Hyphenation: o‧lì‧ve

### Noun

olive f
* plural of oliva

### Anagrams

* Elvio, ovile, viole, voile

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

olive
* Alternative form of olyve

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

olive
* Alternative form of alyve

## Middle High German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oliva.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈoliːvə/, /ˈoliːfə/

### Noun

olīve f
* olive tree
    Synonym: öleboum
* olive (fruit of the olive tree)
    Synonym: ölebere

#### Related terms

* olivier
* olīvēt

#### Descendants

* German: Olive
** →? Hunsrik: Oliv

### References

* Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “olive”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
* "olīve" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

## Old French
### Etymology

From Latin olīva.

### Noun

olive m or f
* olive tree

### Noun

olive oblique singular, f (oblique plural olives, nominative singular olive, nominative plural olives)
* olive

#### Descendants

* → English: olive
* French: olive
** Romanian: olivă

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔlivɛ/

### Noun

olive
* dative singular of oliva
* locative singular of oliva