silva

See also: Silva and silvă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

Noun

silva (plural silvas or silvae)

1. (forestry) The forest trees of a particular area
   • 1909, Willis Linn Jepson, The Trees of California, page 13:

     The most interesting and striking features of the silva of California relate to its composition, the geographical distribution of the species and their biological history.

Alternative forms

• sylva

Related terms

• sylvan (see for more terms)

Anagrams

• Alvis, Livas, Salvi, Slavi, Sliva, Vasil, Vials, Vilas, vails, valis, vials, vilas

Galician

Silvas

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsilβa̝/

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

1. bramble, blackberry bush
   • 1460, José Antonio Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:

     vijã grande[s] lumes de candeas arder de noyte et de dia en huũ monte muy espeso de muytas aruores et siluas, a oyto mjlias de Yria

     they saw large candle fires, burning day and night, in a very close forest, of trees and bambles, eight milles from Iria

   • 1884, Marcial Valladares Núñez, Diccionario gallego-castellano, s.v. silva:

     Tente, silva; non me prendas, que n'estou n'a miña tèrra (traditional song)

     Hold yourself, bramble, don't catch me, 'cos I'm not in my country

2. (archaic) forest

Related terms

• Silva
• silva madre
• Silvaboa
• Silvachá
• Silvadrosa
• Silvaescura
• Silval
• silvar
• Silvar
• Silvares
• Silvarredonda
• silveira
• Silveira
• Silveira Vella
• Silvela
• Silvosa
• Silvoso
• Silvouta

References

• “silua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “silua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “silva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “silva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “silva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Silva

Alternative forms

• sylva

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“firewood, wood, beam, board, frame, threshold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, timber”) and Old English syl (“sill, threshold, foundation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪u̯ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.va/, [ˈsilvä]

• Audio (Classical)

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Noun

silva f (genitive silvae); first declension

1. wood, forest
2. orchard, grove

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	silva	silvae
Genitive	silvae	silvārum
Dative	silvae	silvīs
Accusative	silvam	silvās
Ablative	silvā	silvīs
Vocative	silva	silvae

Derived terms

• silvestris
• Silvia
• silvicaedus
• silvicola
• silvicolens
• silvicomus
• silvicultrīx
• silvifragus
• silviger
• Silvius
• silvula
• Silvānus
• silvāticus
• silvēscō
• silvōsus

 

Descendants

• Asturian: selva, silva
• Catalan: selva
• → English: silva, sylva
• French: sylve
• Gallo-italic
  • Friulian: selve
  • Romagnol: sèiba, siba, sélva
• Galician: silva
• Interlingua: silva
• Italian: selva
• Occitan: selva
• Portuguese: silva, selva
  • → English: selva
  • → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)
• Romanian: silvă
• Spanish: selva
  • → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)

References

• “silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• silva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• silva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • wooded hills: montes vestiti silvis
    

Portuguese

silvas

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiw.vɐ/ [ˈsiʊ̯.vɐ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiw.vɐ/ [ˈsiʊ̯.vɐ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsiw.va/ [ˈsiʊ̯.va]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.vɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.vɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.vɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.vɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.bɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.βɐ]

• Homophone: Silva
• Hyphenation: sil‧va

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“mountain, ridge, forest”). Compare the doublet selva and Galician silva.

The /i/ is puzzling. Philologist Leite de Vasconcelos felt that the word was not a Latinism and conjectured a term spīna *silvea with the same suffix as ligneus and pīneus, where the close post-tonic vowel would cause the stressed vowel to rise, as in marisma and sirgo.

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

1. bramble (any of various thorny shrubs, especially those in the family Rubus)

   Synonyms: espinheiro, sarça

2. (in particular) blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)

   Synonyms: amoreira, amora-silvestre, amoreira-silvestre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

silva

1. inflection of silvar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romanian

Noun

silva f

1. definite singular nominative of silvă

Tok Pisin

Chemical element
Ag

Etymology

From English silver.

Noun

silva

1. silver