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olive [olive 词源字典]: olive: [13] The word olive probably originated in a pre-Indo-European language of the Mediterranean area. Greek took it over as elaíā, and passed it on to English via Latin olīva and Old French olive. The olive’s chief economic role is as a source of oil (indeed the very word oil comes from a Greek derivative of elaíā), and before the word olive arrived in English, it was called eleberge, literally ‘oil-berry’.
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Bolivia: South American republic, founded 1825, named for Simon Bolivar (1783-1830), statesman and soldier.
olive (n.): c. 1200, "olive tree," from Old French olive "olive, olive tree" (13c.) or directly from Latin oliva "olive, olive tree," from Greek elaia "olive tree, olive," probably from the same Aegean language (perhaps Cretan) as Armenian ewi "oil." Applied to the fruit or berry of the tree in English from late 14c. As a color from 17c. Olive branch as a token of peace is from early 13c.
Oliver: masc. personal name, in medieval lore the name of one of Charlemagne's peers, friend of Roland, from French Olivier, from Middle Low German Alfihar, literally "elf-host, elf-army," from alf "elf" (see elf) + hari "host, army" (see harry (v.)). Cognate with Anglo-Saxon name Ælfhere. Form influenced in Old French by olivier "olive tree."
Olivetti: brand of typewriters manufactured by company founded in 1908 near Turin, Italy; named for founder, Camillo Olivetti.
Olivia: fem. proper name, from Italian Olivia, from Latin oliva "olive" (see olive).
olivary: "Relating to or denoting the nucleus situated in the olive of the medulla oblongata in the brain", Late Middle English: from Latin olivarius 'relating to olives', from oliva (see olive).
olivette: "A small oval weight threaded on a fishing line", Early 19th century (in the sense 'an oval button or bead').
olivaster: "Olive-coloured; having an easily-tanned or Mediterranean skin", Early 17th cent.; earliest use found in Francis Bacon (1561–1626), lord chancellor, politician, and philosopher. From French †olivastre olive-coloured from Italian olivastro from oliva + -astro.
oliva: " Zoology (In form Oliva) a genus of marine gastropod molluscs of the family Olividae, characterized by glossy cylindrical shells; (also oliva; more fully oliva shell) a member of this genus; an olive shell", Early 19th cent.; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London.