Sylvesteri

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Finnish

Etymology

Variant of Sylvester.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsylʋesteri/,
  • Rhymes: -eri
  • Hyphenation(key): Syl‧ves‧te‧ri

Proper noun

Sylvesteri

  1. a male given name from Latin
    • 1893 Zachris Topelius, Lukemisia lapsille, 2:nen osa (Vihkot 13,14,15), Werner Söderström, page 110 ("Satu Rutinasta ja Pilviparrasta"):
      Mökkiläisillä on kaksi pientä lasta: poika, jonka nimi on Sylvesteri, ja tyttö, jonka nimi on Sylvia. Kummallista on, mistä he ovat semmoiset nimet saaneet; kenties metsästä, sillä latinan sana sylva merkitsee metsää. Mutta Sylvesteri seisoo almanakassa ja on vuoden viimeinen päivä, joten pojalla joka vuosi on nimipäivänsä uudenvuoden aattona.
      The people in the cottage had two small children: a boy named Sylvesteri and a girl named Sylvia. It's odd how they got such names; perhaps from the forest, which is sylva in Latin. But Sylvesteri is on the calendar at the last day of the year, so his name day is on New Year's Eve.
    • 1909, Ilmari Kianto, Punainen viiva, Otava, published 2003, →ISBN, page 16:
      "Toisinaan vielä sakottavat", oli hän Riikaa peloitellut. Riika oli silloin haikeasti huokaissut ja tyytynyt nimeen Sylvesteri, jota Topi oli väittänyt yhtä koreaksi nimeksi kuin Helanteri. Tätä poikaa sanottiin siis Vesteriksi.
      "One day we'll still have to pay", said he to Riika to intimidate her. Riika had let out a melancholic sigh and made due with the name Sylvesteri which Topi had claimed was as flowery as Helanteri. Yet this boy would often be called Vesteri.

Declension

Possessive forms of Sylvesteri (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

Statistics

  • The given name Sylvesteri belongs to 7 male individuals (and as a middle name to 56 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.