different between selva vs silva

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese selva, from Latin silva. Doublet of silva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?lv?/

Noun

selva (plural selvas)

1. Heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin.

Translations

Anagrams

• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Slave, Slavé, Veals, avels, evals, laves, salve, slave, vales, valse, veals

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin silva.

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. rainforest

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare Portuguese selva, Occitan selva, Spanish selva, Italian selva.

Noun

selva f (plural selves)

1. jungle, rainforest

Related terms

• salvatge

Italian

Etymology

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sel.va/
• Hyphenation: sél?va

Noun

selva f (plural selve)

1. forest, wood
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto I, p. 5, vv. 1-3:

     Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
     mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
     ché la diritta via era smarrita.

     Midway upon the journey of our life
     I found myself within a forest dark,
     for the straight-forward pathway had been lost.

2. (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.

3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (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.

Synonyms

• bosco
• foresta

Derived terms

• selvicoltore
• selvicultore

Related terms

Anagrams

• salve, slave, svela, valse

Latvian

Noun

selva f (4th declension)

1. selva

Declension

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?s??.v?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?s?w.va/, /?s?w.v?/
• Hyphenation: sel?va

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

1. jungle

2. woods, forest

   Synonyms: floresta; see also Thesaurus:floresta

3. (figuratively) mass, multitude, forest

Quotations

• 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".

Derived terms

• selvagem
• selvageria
• silvestre
• silvícola
• silvicultura

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?selba/, [?sel.??a]

Noun

selva f (plural selvas)

1. (forestry) forest or jungle, wood, chiefly a rainforest

Derived terms

Related terms

• salvaje
• selvático
• silvestre
• silvicultura

See also

• bosque
• jungla

Anagrams

Further reading

• “selva” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin silva. Doublet of selva.

Noun

silva (uncountable)

1. (forestry) The forest trees of a particular area

Alternative forms

• sylva

Related terms

• sylvan (see for more terms)

Anagrams

• Alvis, Livas, Salvi, Slavi, Sliva, Vasil, Vials, Vilas, vails, valis, vials, vilas

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician/Old Portuguese silva, from Latin silva (“forest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sil?a?/

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

1. bramble, blackberry bush
   • 1460, José Antonio Souto Cabo (ed.), Crónica de Santa María de Íria. Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:

     vijã grande[s] lumes de candeas arder de noyte et de dia en hu? monte muy espeso de muytas aruores et siluas, a oyto mjlias de Yria

     they saw large candle fires, burning day and night, in a very close forest, of trees and bambles, eight milles from Iria

   • 1884, Marcial Valladares Núñez, Diccionario gallego-castellano, s.v. silva:

     Tente, silva; non me prendas, que n'estou n'a miña tèrra (traditional song)

     Hold yourself, bramble, don't catch me, 'cos I'm not in my country

2. (archaic) forest

Related terms

References

• “silua” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “silua” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “silva” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “silva” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “silva” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Latin

Alternative forms

• sylva

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ??? (húl?, “wood, timber”) and Old English syl (“sill, threshold, foundation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sil.u?a/, [?s????u?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sil.va/, [?silv?]

Noun

silva f (genitive silvae); first declension

1. wood, forest
2. orchard, grove

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• silva in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• silva in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• silva in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• silva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese silva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“mountain, ridge, forest”). Compare the doublet selva and Galician silva.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?si?.v?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?siw.va/, /?siw.v?/
• Homophone: Silva
• Hyphenation: sil?va

Noun

silva f (plural silvas)

1. blackberry

   Synonyms: amora, amora-silvestre

Romanian

Noun

silva f

1. definite singular nominative of silv?