sílfide
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See also: silfide
Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French sylphide, from New Latin sylphes, coined by Swiss occultist Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”), or otherwise Ancient Greek σίλφη (sílphē, “beetle”).
More at sylph.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: síl‧fi‧de
Noun[edit]
sílfide f (plural sílfides)
Related terms[edit]
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
sílfide f (plural sílfides)
Hypernyms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “sílfide”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
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- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
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- Spanish 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ilfide
- Rhymes:Spanish/ilfide/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
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