English
Silvana
Silvana comes from Latin Silvāna ‘a female wood-deity’, and goes back to silva ‘forest’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘forest’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CESilvāna‘a female wood-deity’
- it,pt,esmodernSilvana
- Englishearliest quotation 1811same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘forest’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CESilvāna‘a female wood-deity’
- it,pt,esmodernSilvana
- Englishearliest quotation 1811same form
Earliest quotation: 1811, Married: “At Lochwinnoch, on the 13th curt. Mr. William Brodie,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‘jump, spring’
result, sale, salmon, insult, sally, salon, exile, salle, resilient, salient, somersault, sill, salacious, slink, seel, selly, 19 more
through Latin silva ‘forest’
Today it means
name A female given name from Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin silva / Silvana