English
selva
Selva comes from Portuguese selva ‘woods, forest’, and goes back to Latin silva ‘wood’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘wood’
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentselva‘woods, forest’
- Englishtodayselva
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘wood’
- Portuguesec. 1500–presentselva‘woods, forest’
- Englishtodayselva
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‘jump, spring’
result, sale, salmon, insult, sally, salon, exile, resilient, salle, salient, sill, somersault, salacious, slink, selly, seel, 18 more
through Latin silva ‘wood’
Today it means
noun Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin silva / selva