Olive in Spanish 🇪🇸

Pronunciation

normal speech: ah-seh-TOO-nah

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Related word

Relatedly, aceite is the word for oil. But it doesn’t have to be olive oil.

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aceituna info.

Tips to remember:

– Connect the word ‘aceituna’ with the Spanish word for oil, ‘aceite’, since olives are a primary source of olive oil.
– Think of a tuna fish swimming in a sea of olives to link the sound of ‘aceituna’ to its meaning.
– Use a mnemonic: A Spanish olive tree eating “una” (one) olive.

Explanations:

– “Aceituna” is the Spanish word for olive, the small, oval-shaped fruit of the olive tree, which is often used in cooking and is well known for being pressed into olive oil.

Other words that mean the same thing:

– There are not many synonyms for “aceituna” in Spanish, but sometimes you may hear “oliva” to refer to the fruit particularly in an agricultural or scientific context.

Alternate meanings like slang:

– To the best of my knowledge, “aceituna” does not have widely recognized slang meanings. It is generally understood directly as the fruit.

Examples of sentences that use it:

– Me encanta comer aceitunas en mi ensalada. (I love to eat olives in my salad.)
– ¿Podrías pasar la botella de aceite de aceituna, por favor? (Could you pass the bottle of olive oil, please?)
– Las aceitunas verdes son menos maduras que las negras. (Green olives are less ripe than black ones.)
– En la mesa de la fiesta había una gran variedad de aceitunas rellenas. (At the party table, there was a great variety of stuffed olives.)
– Compré un frasco de aceitunas para picar antes de la cena. (I bought a jar of olives to snack on before dinner.)

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