Noun: silva
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | silva |
| Plural f | silvas |
Sample Sentences
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vijã grande[s] lumes de candeas arder de noyte et de dia en huũ 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) [1460, José Antonio Souto Cabo, editor, Crónica de Santa María de Íria, Santiago: Ediciós do Castro, page 101:]
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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) [1884, Marcial Valladares Núñez, Diccionario gallego-castellano, s.v. silva]
Nouns inflected like silva
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva (“forest”). See: Latin Nouns '
silva'.
Verbs referencing "silva"
Portuguese Nouns
silva.
Translations