ulva

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from translingual Ulva, itself from Latin ulva (“sedge”). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈɔl.və/ Rhymes: -ɔlvə Homophone: Ulva === Noun === ulva (plural ulvas) Any organism of the genus Ulva. == Latin == === Etymology === Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to grow”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊɫ.wa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈul.va] === Noun === ulva f (genitive ulvae); first declension sedge Synonym: cārex ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Galician: Olveira (toponym), >? olga (unlikely) → Italian: ulva → Translingual: Ulva → English: ulva === References === “ulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ulva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ulva”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.