Noun: selva
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | selva |
| Plural f | selvas |
Sample Sentences
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O leão é o rei da selva. (The lion is the king of the jungle.)
Nouns inflected like selva
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva. See: Latin Nouns '
silva'.
Verbs referencing "selva"
English Nouns
selva, French Nouns
selve, Russian Nouns
сельва.
Translations