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Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of olive.
oliva
- (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.
oliva f (plural olives)
- olive (fruit)
- “oliva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “oliva”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “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]
oliva f (related adjective olivový)
- olive (fruit)
- ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “oliva”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
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.
oliva f (plural olivas)
- 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: ILG
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “ouliu”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- 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)
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.
oliva f (plural olive)
- olive (fruit)
oliva m (invariable)
- olive (color)
oliva (invariable)
- olive (color)
From Etruscan *𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀 (*eleiva) (whence 𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌉𐌅𐌀𐌍𐌀 (eleivana, “of oil”)) or from Pre-Classical Ancient Greek *ἐλαίϝα (*elaíwa) (compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀁𐀨𐀷 (e-ra-wa), Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía)), most likely from Pre-Greek (according to Beekes) or, much more questionably, 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): /oˈliː.u̯a/, [ɔˈlʲiːu̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈli.va/, [oˈliːvä]
olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension
- an olive (fruit)
- an olive tree
- (poetic) an olive branch
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | olīva | olīvae |
Genitive | olīvae | olīvārum |
Dative | olīvae | olīvīs |
Accusative | olīvam | olīvās |
Ablative | olīvā | olīvīs |
Vocative | olīva | olīvae |
- → Albanian: ulli
- Aragonese: oliba, oliva
- Corsican: aliva
- Dalmatian: olea
- → Esperanto: olivo
- Friulian: ulive
- → Galician: oliva
- → German: Olive
- → Ido: olivo
- Italian: oliva
- Old French: olive
- Old Occitan: oliva
- → Portuguese: oliva
- Romansch: uliva, uleiva
- Sardinian: aliva
- Sicilian: aliva, uliva
- Spanish: oliva
- Venetian: oliva, ołiva
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *olīvus
- “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
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἐλαία”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401
oliva
- Alternative form of olyve
Learned borrowing from Latin olīva.[1][2]
- Hyphenation: o‧li‧va
oliva f (plural olivas)
- olive tree
- Synonym: oliveira
- olive (fruit)
- Synonym: azeitona
- ^ “oliva”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “oliva”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
oliva f (plural olivas)
Via German Olive, from Latin olīva, from Ancient Greek ἐλαία (elaía).
oliva f (genitive singular olivy, nominative plural olivy, genitive plural olív, declension pattern of žena)
- olive (fruit)
- “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, 2024
oliva f (plural olivas)
- “oliva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014