sylva
See also: Sylva
English edit
Noun edit
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 edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsyl.u̯a/, [ˈs̠ʏɫ̪u̯ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsil.va/, [ˈsilvä]
Noun edit
sylva f (genitive sylvae); first declension
- (considered to be less correct, proscribed) Alternative form of silva
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sylva | sylvae |
| Genitive | sylvae | sylvārum |
| Dative | sylvae | sylvīs |
| Accusative | sylvam | sylvās |
| Ablative | sylvā | sylvīs |
| Vocative | sylva | sylvae |
References edit
- “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.