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selva

See also: Selva and selvä

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Portuguese selva, from Latin silva. Doublet of silva.

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selva (plural selvas)

  1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

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Etymology

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From Latin silva.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈselba/, [ˈsel.β̞a]

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selva f (plural selves)

  1. rainforest

Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan selva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Occitan selva, Spanish selva.

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selva f (plural selves)

  1. jungle, rainforest

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

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selva f (plural selve)

  1. forest, wood
  2. (by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland
    • 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII:
      [...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,
      per uscirmi di braccia come il giorno
      che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.
      [...] and may she not be changed to green woodland,
      issuing from my arms, as on the day
      when Apollo pursued her down here on earth.
  3. (figurative) mass, multitude, forest
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:
      Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,
      ma passavam la selva tuttavia,
      la selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.
      We ceased not to advance because he spake,
      but still were passing onward through the forest,
      the forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.

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  1. ^ selva in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latvian

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Noun

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selva f (4th declension)

  1. selva

Declension

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Declension of selva (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) selva selvas
accusative (akuzatīvs) selvu selvas
genitive (ģenitīvs) selvas selvu
dative (datīvs) selvai selvām
instrumental (instrumentālis) selvu selvām
locative (lokatīvs) selvā selvās
vocative (vokatīvs) selva selvas

Portuguese

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From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva.

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛw.vɐ/ [ˈsɛʊ̯.vɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsɛw.va/ [ˈsɛʊ̯.va]
 

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selva f (plural selvas)

  1. jungle
    O leão é o rei da selva.
    The lion is the king of the jungle.
  2. woods, forest
    Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus:floresta
  3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest

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  • 1844: O apertado revolver das armas formava uma selva de ferros em volta dos dois capitães inimigos, através da qual debalde o conde de Septum buscara multas vezes abrir caminho para ferir Teodomiro, até que finalmente, galgando por cima de um árabe derribado, pudera vibrar um golpe. — Alexandre Herculano, "Eurico, o Presbítero".

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  • → English: selva
  • → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)

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Selva (rainforest).

Etymology

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Inherited from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

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selva f (plural selvas)

  1. (forestry) forest or jungle, wood, chiefly a rainforest

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