sylva

See also: Sylva

English

Noun

sylva (plural sylvas)

  1. 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

Latin

Noun

sylva f (genitive sylvae); first declension

  1. (considered to be less correct, proscribed) Alternative form of silva

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sylva sylvae
Genitive sylvae sylvārum
Dative sylvae sylvīs
Accusative sylvam sylvās
Ablative sylvā sylvīs
Vocative sylva sylvae

References
  • 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, 1883–1887)
  • sylva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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