silva

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See also: Silva and silvă

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

Noun

silva (uncountable)

  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

Anagrams

Galician

Silvas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    • 1460, José Antonio Souto Cabo (ed.), 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

References

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Descendants

  • Asturian: selva, silva
  • Catalan: selva
  • English: sylvan, silvan
  • French: sylve
  • Friulian: selve
  • Galician: silva

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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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • Homophone: Silva
  • Hyphenation: sil‧va

Noun

silva f (plural s)

  1. blackberry
    Synonyms: amora, amora-silvestre

Romanian

Noun

silva f

  1. definite singular nominative of silvă
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