different between sieva vs silva

English

Noun

sieva (plural sievas)

1. A small variety of lima bean.

Anagrams

• Eavis, avise, e-visa, evisa

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *?éiw??, from Proto-Indo-European *?éy-wos, from *?ey- (“be located; camp, settlement; friendly; from the same home”) with a suffix -w? (from the same stem also Latvian saime (“household”)). The semantic change seems to have been “friendly settlement or household member” > “woman”. Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (?éva, “dear, friendly, honored”), Gothic ????????????????????-???????????????????????? (heiwa-frauja, “master of the house”), Old High German hiwa (“wife”), hi(w)o (“spouse; servant”), Latin civis (“citizen”) (previously “household member”, “villager”). As Latvian sieva gradually shifted its basic meaning to “wife”, a new term sieviete (“woman”) was coined (in the 19th century).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [s???va]

Noun

sieva f (4th declension)

1. wife (married woman; woman with respect to her husband)

2. woman

Declension

Synonyms

• dz?vesbiedre

Antonyms

• dz?vesbiedrs
• v?rs

Derived terms

• sieviete
• sievisks
• sieviš?s, sieviš??gs, sieviš??gums, sieviš??ba

References

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?