different between grayish vs olive

English

Alternative forms

• greyish

Etymology

gray +? -ish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?.??/

Adjective

grayish (comparative more grayish, superlative most grayish)

1. somewhat gray

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English olyve, from Old French olive (“olive, olive tree”), from Latin ol?va (“olive”), from Etruscan ???????????????????????? (eleiva) or Proto-Greek *?????? (*elaíwa), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *loiwom (compare Old Church Slavonic ??? (loi, “tallow”), Old Armenian ??? (ew?, “oil”)). Displaced native Old English eleber?e, literally "oil berry."

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?l'?v, IPA^(key): /??l?v/
• (US) enPR: äl'?v, IPA^(key): /??l?v/, [?????l?v?]

Noun

olive (plural olives)

1. A tree, Olea europaea, cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.
2. The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).
3. The wood of the olive tree.
4. A dark yellowish-green color, that of an unripe olive.

5. (neuroanatomy) An olivary body, part of the medulla oblongata.
6. 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.
7. (cooking) A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked.

   a beef olive

   olives of veal

8. Any shell of the genus Oliva and allied genera; so called from the shape.
9. (Britain, dialect) An oystercatcher, a shore bird.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

olive (comparative more olive, superlative most olive)

1. Of a grayish green color, that of an unripe olive.

Related terms

• oleaster
• olivenite
• olivewood
• Olivia
• olivine

Translations

See also

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

References

Anagrams

• lovie, viole, voile

French

Etymology

From Old French olive, from Latin ol?va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.liv/

Noun

olive f (plural olives)

1. olive

Derived terms

• olivier

Further reading

• “olive” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• viole, violé, voile, voilé

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ive

Noun

olive f

1. plural of oliva

Anagrams

• Elvio, ovile, viole, voile

Middle English

Noun

olive

1. Alternative form of olyve

Middle High German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oliva.

Noun

ol?ve f

1. olive

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ol?va.

Noun

olive m or f

1. olive tree

Noun

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

1. olive

Descendants

• ? English: olive
• French: olive

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??liv?/

Noun

olive

1. dative singular of oliva
2. locative singular of oliva