Sylvester
See also: sylvester
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin sylvester (“woody, rural”) from silva (“wood”); name of a saint whose feast day falls on December 31.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sylvester
- A male given name from Latin used in English since the sixteenth century.
- A surname.
- A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- A city, the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Fisher County, Texas, United States.
- A small town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
- A town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States.
Derived terms edit
- Sylvester equation
- Sylvester-Gallai theorem
- Sylvester's criterion
- Sylvester's formula
- Sylvester's theorem
Related terms edit
Translations edit
male given name
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Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sylvester
- (rare as a first name) a male given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Sylvester (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Sylvester | Sylvesterit | ||
genitive | Sylvesterin | Sylvesterien Sylvestereiden Sylvestereitten | ||
partitive | Sylvesteriä | Sylvestereitä Sylvesterejä | ||
illative | Sylvesteriin | Sylvestereihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Sylvester | Sylvesterit | ||
accusative | nom. | Sylvester | Sylvesterit | |
gen. | Sylvesterin | |||
genitive | Sylvesterin | Sylvesterien Sylvestereiden Sylvestereitten | ||
partitive | Sylvesteriä | Sylvestereitä Sylvesterejä | ||
inessive | Sylvesterissä | Sylvestereissä | ||
elative | Sylvesteristä | Sylvestereistä | ||
illative | Sylvesteriin | Sylvestereihin | ||
adessive | Sylvesterillä | Sylvestereillä | ||
ablative | Sylvesteriltä | Sylvestereiltä | ||
allative | Sylvesterille | Sylvestereille | ||
essive | Sylvesterinä | Sylvestereinä | ||
translative | Sylvesteriksi | Sylvestereiksi | ||
abessive | Sylvesterittä | Sylvestereittä | ||
instructive | — | Sylvesterein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- The given name Sylvester belongs to 43 male individuals (and as a middle name to 521 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 5 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sylvester
- Alternative form of Silvester