silvestris
Latin
Alternative forms
- sylvestris
Etymology
From silva (“woods, forest”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /silˈu̯es.tris/, [s̠ɪɫ̪ˈu̯ɛs̠t̪rɪs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /silˈves.tris/, [silˈvɛst̪ris]
Adjective
silvestris (neuter silvestre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or pertaining to a forest or wood
- forested, wooded, overgrown with trees
- rural, wild, living in forests
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | silvestris | silvestre | silvestrēs | silvestria | |
Genitive | silvestris | silvestrium | |||
Dative | silvestrī | silvestribus | |||
Accusative | silvestrem | silvestre | silvestrēs silvestrīs | silvestria | |
Ablative | silvestrī | silvestribus | |||
Vocative | silvestris | silvestre | silvestrēs | silvestria |
Derived terms
- silva
- silvēscō
- silvestria
- silvicola
- silvicultrīx
- silvōsus
Descendants
- France:
- Franco-Provençal: [ʃaˈviθro]
- Occitan: sauvestre (Niçard)
- Old French: sevestre, sovestre
- Middle French: sevest (hapax)
- ⇒ Norman: chevrestre (crossed with chevre 'goat'?)
- Italy:
- ⇒ Italian: salvastrella (“burnet plant”)
- Piedmontese: svestru (“water salamander”)
- Sardinian: silivestru (“mistletoe”)
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: silvestre
- → Galician: silvestre
- → Italian: silvestre
- → Portuguese: silvestre
- → Spanish: silvestre
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sĭlvĕstris”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 621
Further reading
- “silvestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silvestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silvestris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette