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IPA/oliv/
Prends une olive si tu veux.
Take an olive if you want.
Pour l'apéritif, j'ouvre un bocal d'olives.
For an aperitif, I open a jar of olives.
The oval fruit of the olive tree, whether fresh-looking, preserved, or reduced to oil.
huile d'olive
olive oil
bocal d'olives
jar of olives
olive verte
green olive
olive de table: A cured or seasoned olive prepared for eating.
huile d'olive: Oil pressed from olives and used to add flavor in cooking.
Fruit comestible de l'olivier, de forme ovale, généralement vert ou noir, consommé entier ou transformé en huile.
Olive entered French through Latin oliva, itself borrowed from Greek ἐλαία, and its history includes the linked notions of fruit and oil.