oliva

See also: Oliva, olíva, olivă, and olīva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oliva (“olive”). Doublet of 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

• Ivalo, Viola, viola, voila, voilà, volia

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [uˈli.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [uˈli.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [oˈli.va]

• Audio (Valencia):

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Noun

oliva f (plural olives)

1. olive (fruit)

Derived terms

• oliva negra
• oliva verda
• olivella
• oliver
• olivera

References

• “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.

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈolɪva]

Noun

oliva f (related adjective olivový)

1. olive (fruit)

Declension

Declension of oliva (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	oliva	olivy
genitive	olivy	oliv
dative	olivě	olivám
accusative	olivu	olivy
vocative	olivo	olivy
locative	olivě	olivách
instrumental	olivou	olivami

Derived terms

• olivovník

 

Further reading

• oliva in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• oliva in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Galician

Alternative forms

• ouliva

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (Traditional) IPA^(key): [oˈli.βɐ]
• (Modern) IPA^(key): [ɔˈli.βɐ]

• Audio:

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Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

Related terms

• oliveira (“olive tree”)

References

• Ernesto 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: ILG
• 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
• “oliva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “oliva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “oliva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Interlingua

Noun

oliva (plural olivas)

1. olive

Italian

Olive (olives)

Alternative forms

• uliva

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: o‧lì‧va

Noun

oliva f (plural olive)

1. olive (fruit)

Noun

oliva m (invariable)

1. olive (color)

Adjective

oliva (invariable)

1. olive (color)

Related terms

• olio d'oliva
• olivaceo
• olivagno
• olivaio
• olivare
• olivastro
• olivato
• olivella
• olivello
• olivenite
• oliveto
• olivetta
• olivigno
• olivina
• olivo

 

Anagrams

• Viola, ovali, viola, voilà, volai

Latin

olivae (olives)

oliva (olive tree)

Etymology

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?)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈliː.u̯a/, [ɔˈlʲiːu̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/, [oˈliːvä]

Noun

olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Synonyms

• (olive fruit): olea
• (olive tree): olea, oleaster, oleastrum

Derived terms

• olīvans
• olīvifer
• olīvitor
• olīvitās
• olīvum
• olīvārius
• olīvēta
• olīvētum

 

Related terms

• olea
• oleastellus
• oleaster
• oleitās
• oleum
• oleāceus
• oleāgineus
• oleāmen
• oleāris
• oleārius
• oleātus
• oleōsus
• olētum
• olīvum
• olīvāceus

 

Descendants

• → Albanian: ulli
• Aragonese: oliba, oliva
• Corsican: aliva
• Dalmatian: olea
• → Esperanto: olivo
• Friulian: ulive
• → Galician: oliva
• → German: Olive
• → Ido: olivo
• Italian: oliva
• Old French: olive
  • → English: olive
  • French: olive
    • Romanian: olivă
• Old Occitan: oliva
  • Catalan: oliva
  • Occitan: oliva
• → Portuguese: oliva
• Romansch: uliva, uleiva
• Sardinian: aliva
• Sicilian: aliva, uliva
• Spanish: oliva
• Venetian: oliva, ołiva
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *olīvus
  • Catalan: oliu
  • Italian: olivo
  • Sicilian: alivu
  • Spanish: olivo

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
• 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

Anagrams

• viola

Middle English

Noun

oliva

1. Alternative form of olyve

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈli.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈli.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈli.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈli.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈli.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈli.bɐ/ [ɔˈli.βɐ]

• Hyphenation: o‧li‧va

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive tree

   Synonym: oliveira

2. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: azeitona

Derived terms

• olival
• olivedo

Related terms

• oliveira
• oliveirense

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

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

Declension of oliva

	singular	plural
nominative	oliva	olivy
genitive	olivy	olív
dative	olive	olivám
accusative	olivu	olivy
locative	olive	olivách
instrumental	olivou	olivami

Derived terms

• olivový
• olivovo
• olivovník

Further reading

• “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

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin olīva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oˈliba/ [oˈli.β̞a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: o‧li‧va

Noun

oliva f (plural olivas)

1. olive (fruit)

   Synonym: aceituna

2. olive tree

   Synonym: olivo

3. owl

   Synonym: lechuza

Derived terms

• aceite de oliva

 

Related terms

• olivar
• olivo

 

Further reading

• “oliva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014