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5-letter words (4 found)

SILVA,VAILS,VALIS,VIALS,

4-letter words (10 found)

AILS,LAVS,LIAS,SAIL,SIAL,VAIL,VALI,VIAL,VIAS,VISA,

3-letter words (12 found)

AIL,AIS,ALS,LAS,LAV,LIS,SAI,SAL,SAV,VAS,VIA,VIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

AI,AL,AS,IS,LA,LI,SI,

You can make 33 words from silva according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of silva

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Definitions and meaning of silva

silva

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

Noun

silva (plural silvas or silvae)

  1. (forestry) The forest trees of a particular area

Alternative forms

  • sylva

Related terms

  • sylvan (see for more terms)

Anagrams

  • Alvis, Livas, Salvi, Slavi, Sliva, Vasil, Vials, Vilas, vails, valis, vials, vilas

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsilβa̝/

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

  1. bramble, blackberry bush
    • 1884, Marcial Valladares Núñez, Diccionario gallego-castellano, s.v. silva:
  2. (archaic) forest

Related terms

References

  • “silua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “silua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “silva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “silva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “silva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • sylva

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsil.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪u̯ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsil.va/, [ˈsilvä]

Noun

silva f (genitive silvae); first declension

  1. wood, forest
  2. orchard, grove

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

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.
  • 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

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: Silva
  • Hyphenation: sil‧va

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

silva

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

References

Romanian

Noun

silva f

  1. definite singular nominative of silvă

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English silver.

Noun

silva

  1. silver

Source: wiktionary.org