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silva

See also: Silva and silvă

English

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

    Noun

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    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.

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    Galician

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    Silvas

    Etymology

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

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈsilba/ [ˈs̺il.β̞ɐ]
    • Rhymes: -ilba
    • Hyphenation: sil‧va

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    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
    3. white stripe on a horse head
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    Latin

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    Latin Wikipedia has an article on:
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    Silva

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    Etymology

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      Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“firewood, wood, beam, board, frame, threshold”), and compared with Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood, timber”) and Old English syl (“sill, threshold, foundation”). However, De Vaan is implicitly skeptical of this derivation, and leaves the origin open.

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      Noun

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      silva f (genitive silvae); first declension

      1. wood; forest
      2. orchard; grove

      Declension

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      First-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative silva silvae
      genitive silvae silvārum
      dative silvae silvīs
      accusative silvam silvās
      ablative silvā silvīs
      vocative silva silvae

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      References

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      • “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, 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
      • De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 564

      Portuguese

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      silvas

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      Etymology 1

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      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.[1]

      Noun

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      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

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

      Verb

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      silva

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

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      1. ^ 1920, Leite de Vasconcellos, Revista Lusitana, volume 23, page 188

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      silva f

      1. definite singular nominative of silvă

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      Chemical element (edit)
      Ag
      Atomic number 47
      silva
      Classification data
      Period 5
      Group 11
      Block d-block
      Class transition metal
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      Etymology

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      From English silver.

      Noun

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      silva

      1. silver
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