different between uva vs eva

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

Adverb

eva (not comparable)

1. Pronunciation spelling of ever.

Anagrams

• 'ave, AEV, Ave., EAV, Vea, ave, ave., vae

Cornish

Verb

eva

1. to drink

Dutch

Etymology

From Eva (“Eve”), referring to the fig leaves the postlapsarian Eve wore to cover her vulva in the Biblical story.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?.va?/
• Hyphenation: eva

Noun

eva f (plural eva's, diminutive evaatje n)

1. (archaic) A half-apron.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Eva (“Eve”), of the biblical creation story. The name comes from Latin Eva, from Ancient Greek ??? (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew ??????? (?aww?).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: æva (example of pronunciation)

Noun

eva f (definite singular evaa, indefinite plural evaer, definite plural evaene)

1. a woman, particularly with very womanly traits

Etymology 2

From Old Norse efa, ifa.

Alternative forms

• eve (e-infinitive)

Pronunciation

• Homophone: æva (example of pronunciation)

Verb

eva (present tense evar, past tense eva, past participle eva, passive infinitive evast, present participle evande, imperative ev)

1. (reflexive) to doubt, drag one's feet

Usage notes

• This is a split infinitive verb.

Etymology 3

Related to eva (Etymology 2) and ev.

Noun

eva f (definite singular eva, indefinite plural ever or evor, definite plural evene or evone)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by eve
2. definite singular of eve

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Alternative forms

• evi (non-standard since 2012)

Noun

eva n

1. definite plural of ev

References

Anagrams

• ave, Eva, vea

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin aqua. Compare French eau, Romansch ava, ova.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??va/

Noun

eva f

1. water