# silva
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

### Noun

silva (plural silvas or silvae)
* (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.

#### 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: /ˈsilba/ [ˈs̺il.β̞ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ilba
* Hyphenation: sil‧va

### Noun

silva f (plural silvas)
* 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 Yriathey 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
* (archaic) forest
* white stripe on a horse head

#### Related terms

* Silva
* silva madre
* Silvaboa
* Silvachá
* Silvadrosa
* Silvaescura
* Silval
* silvar
* Silvar
* Silvares
* Silvarredonda
* silveira
* Silveira
* Silveira Vella
* Silvela
* Silvosa
* Silvoso
* Silvouta

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “silua”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “silua”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “silva”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “silva”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “silva”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

### Further reading

* “silva”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
* “silva” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

## 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 Latin) IPA: /ˈsil.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪u̯ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsil.va/, [ˈsilvä]

### Noun

silva f (genitive silvae); first declension
* wood, forest
* orchard, grove

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* silvanus
* Silvānus
* silvāticus
* silvēscō
* silvestris
* Silvia
* silvicaedus
* silvicola
* silvicolens
* silvicomus
* silvicultrīx
* silvifragus
* silviger
* Silvius
* silvōsus
* silvula

#### Descendants

* Asturian: selva, silva
* Catalan: selva
* → English: silva, sylva
* French: sylve
* Gallo-italic
** Friulian: selve
** Romagnol: sèiba, siba, sélva
* Galician: silva
* Interlingua: silva
* Italian: selva
* Occitan: selva
* Portuguese: silva, selva
** → English: selva
** → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)
* Romanian: silvă
* Spanish: selva
** → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)

### 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, 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
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiw.vɐ/ [ˈsiʊ̯.vɐ]
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiw.vɐ/ [ˈsiʊ̯.vɐ]
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈsiw.va/ [ˈsiʊ̯.va]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsil.vɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.vɐ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈsil.vɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.vɐ]
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈsil.bɐ/ [ˈsiɫ.βɐ]
* 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)
* bramble (any of various thorny shrubs, especially those in the family Rubus)
    Synonyms: espinheiro, sarça
* (in particular) blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)
    Synonyms: amoreira, amora-silvestre, amoreira-silvestre

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

silva
* inflection of silvar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* ↑ 1920, Leite de Vasconcellos, Revista Lusitana, volume 23, page 188

## Romanian
### Noun

silva f
* definite singular nominative of silvă

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English silver.

### Noun

silva
* silver