Etymograph

English

silva

Silva comes from Latin silva ‘wood’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘wood’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsilva‘wood’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1909same form

Earliest quotation: 1909, Willis Linn Jepson, The Trees of California: “The most interesting and striking features of the silva…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‘jump, spring’

result, sale, salmon, insult, sally, salon, exile, salle, salient, resilient, somersault, salacious, slink, sill, seel, selly, 18 more

through Latin silva ‘wood’

savage, salvage, sylvan, selva, 6 more

Today it means

noun The forest trees of a particular area

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin silva / silva

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