oliva
English
Noun
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.
Catalan
Pronunciation
Derived terms
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈolɪva]
Declension
Derived terms
References
- "oliva" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007
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.
Related terms
- oliveira (“olive tree”)
References
- “oliva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “oliva” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “ouliu” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “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.
Italian

Alternative forms
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 (file) - Rhymes: -iva
- Hyphenation: o‧lì‧va
Related terms
Latin


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) IPA(key): /oˈliː.u̯a/, [ɔˈlʲiːu̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈli.va/, [oˈliːvä]
Noun
olīva f (genitive olīvae); first declension
- an olive (fruit)
- an olive tree
- (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 |
Related terms
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
- Old Occitan: oliva
- → Portuguese: oliva
- Romansch: uliva, uleiva
- Sardinian: aliva
- Sicilian: aliva, uliva
- Spanish: oliva
- Venetian: oliva, ołiva
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *olīvus
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
Middle English
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈli.vɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /oˈli.va/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈli.vɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɔˈli.bɐ/ [ɔˈli.βɐ]
- Hyphenation: o‧li‧va
Related terms
References
- “oliva” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “oliva” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Romansch
Alternative forms
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oliva/
Noun
oliva f (genitive singular olivy, nominative plural olivy, genitive plural olív, declension pattern of žena)
- olive (fruit)
Declension
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
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /oˈliba/ [oˈli.β̞a]
- (Castilian)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iba
- Syllabification: o‧li‧va
Noun
oliva f (plural olivas)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “oliva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014