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English
Noun
sylva (plural sylvas or sylvae)
- Alternative spelling of silva
1854, Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852, page 42:A solitary cotton-wood, with an occasional clump of willows, constitute the sylva of this portion of the river.
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
sylva f (genitive sylvae); first declension
- (considered to be less correct, proscribed) Alternative form of silva
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “sylva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sylva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sylva 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)
- sylva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.