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Latin
Etymology
From silva.
Pronunciation
Adjective
silvānus (feminine silvāna, neuter silvānum); first/second-declension adjective
- silvan
- Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
- Residing in a forest or wood.
- Wooded, or covered in forest.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- "silvanus", 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)
- “silvanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “silvanus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray