uva Latin · revision 31065

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=itc-pro *oiwā}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈuː.wa], [ˈuː.waː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈuː.va], [ˈuː.va]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''ūva''' ''f'' (genitive ūvae); first declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*oiwā]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|ὄα|tr=óa|t=service tree]] and [[xcl|այգի|tr=aygi|t=vine]], which also go back to ⟨*oiwā-⟩, and with tree names from ⟨*eiwā-⟩ elsewhere, [[lt|ievà|t=bird cherry]], [[ru|ива|tr=iva|t=willow]] and [[gem-pro|*īwaz|t=yew]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Because of the varying root vowel de Vaan finds an Indo-European origin difficult, and suggests that this tree name may have been borrowed from a non-Indo-European language.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan gives Lucilius as its first author,^(de Vaan 2008) but Plautus already has ''ūva passa'', a raisin, in the ''Poenulus'': “you'll hang by me like a dried grape”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a bunch of grapes, and loosely grapes in general, as Lucilius' figs and grapes eaten, ''ūva passa'' is a raisin.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) By likeness Pliny the Elder uses it of a cluster of other fruit or flowers, of a swarm of bees hanging like a bunch of grapes, and perhaps of cuttlefish eggs.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) In medicine, from Celsus on, it is the [[m|en|uvula]], often swollen, and a bulging of the eye.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “grape, bunch of grapes”.^(Stelten 1995) Its diminutive is [[ūvula]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a raisin.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 180–102 BC – Lucilius of grapes eaten.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus of the uvula.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder of a swarm of bees.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A bunch of [[m|en|grape|alt=grapes]]; grapes, ''ūva passa'', a [[m|en|raisin]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A cluster (of other fruit or flowers); a cluster of swarming bees.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(medicine)'' The uvula; a bulging of the eye.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ūvifer]]

+ * [[vītis]]

+ * [[racēmus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}