different between uva vs bearberry

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?va (“grape”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?.v?/

Noun

uva (plural uvae or (obsolete) uvæ)

1. (botany) A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape.

Anagrams

• AUV, UAV, vau

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin ?va.

Pronunciation

Noun

uva f (plural uves)

1. grape

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ?va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?u??]

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

Related terms

• úvula

Italian

Etymology

From Latin ?va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u.va/
• Hyphenation: ù?va

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape
2. (collective noun) grapes

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• vino
• vite

Further reading

• uva on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Latin

Etymology

Some refer to ?me?, others to Proto-Indo-European *h?eyHweh? (“multicolored, reddish”), with Ancient Greek ?? (óa, “Sorbus domestica”) as cognate, and Proto-Germanic *?waz, *?w? (“yew”), Proto-Slavic *j??va (“willow”).

Pronunciation

• ?va: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?.u?a/, [?u?u?ä]
• ?va: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?u.va/, [?u?v?]
• ?v?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?.u?a?/, [?u?u?ä?]
• ?v?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?u.va/, [?u?v?]

Noun

?va f (genitive ?vae); first declension

1. (literally):
   1. The fruit of the vine; a grape.
   2. (collective) Grapes.
2. (transferred sense):
   1. A bunch or cluster of grapes.
   2. A vine.
   3. (botany) (of other plants) A bunch or cluster of fruit.
   4. (zoology) A cluster, like a bunch of grapes, which bees form when they alight in swarming.
   5. (anatomy) The soft palate, the uvula.

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• ?vula (diminutive)

Related terms

• ?v?ns
• ?v?sc?
• ?vidus
• ?vifer

Descendants

Noun

?v?

1. ablative singular of ?va

References

• uva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ?? in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• üva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?yva/

Noun

uva f (plural uve)

1. grape

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese uva, from Latin ?va. Cognate with Galician uva, Spanish uva, Italian uva and Romanian au?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?u.v?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?u.va/, /?u.v?/
• Hyphenation: u?va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape (fruit).

Related terms

• úvula
• videira

Descendants

• Apalaí: uwa

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• ua

Etymology

From Latin ?va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u?a/

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape, (collective noun) grapes (fruit)

   Synonym: achina

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

uva (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. genitive singular of uvo

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ?va.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?uba/, [?u.??a]
• Hyphenation: u?va

Noun

uva f (plural uvas)

1. grape

Derived terms

Related terms

• úvula

English

Etymology

bear +? berry

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??b(?)?i/

Noun

bearberry (plural bearberries)

1. Any of three dwarf shrubs of the genus Arctostaphylos, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.
   • 1952, Farley Mowat, People of the Deer, Key Porter 2005, p. 26:

     Sometimes she scrabbled through the drifts on hilltops and found a few wizened bearberries or a handful of rock-tripe, a kind of moss.

   1. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, the common bearberry.
2. Arbutus menziesii.

Derived terms

• mountain bearberry (Arctostaphylos alpina)

Translations

Further reading

• bearberry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arctostaphylos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Arctostaphylos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• bearberry at USDA Plants database