selva
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Borrowed from Portuguese selva, from Latin silva. Doublet of silva.
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selva (plural selvas)
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heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin
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selva f (plural selves)
Catalan edit
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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)
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- “selva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “selva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Italian edit
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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)
- forest, wood
- mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell][1], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate][2], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
- (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.
- [...] and may she not be changed to green woodland,
- 1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII:
- (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.
- We ceased not to advance because he spake,
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- ^ selva in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
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Latvian edit
Noun edit
selva f (4th declension)
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Declension of selva (4th declension)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
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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- Hyphenation: sel‧va
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Noun edit
selva f (plural selvas)
- jungle
- O leão é o rei da selva.
- The lion is the king of the jungle.
- woods, forest
- Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus:floresta
- (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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Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).
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selva f (plural selvas)
- (forestry) forest or jungle, wood, chiefly a rainforest
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- → Russian: се́льва (sélʹva)
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Further reading edit
- “selva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014