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Pittsylvania

name
/ˌpɪt.sɪlˈveɪ.ni.ə/US/ˌpɪt.səlˈveɪ.ni.ə/

Etymology

* (Pittsylvania County): Pitt (“William Pitt the Elder”) + sylvan (“woods”) + -ia (“land”)

  1. derived from ῡ̔́λη
  2. derived from *sel-✻
  3. derived from silvanus
  4. borrowed from sylvain
  5. borrowed from sylvanus
  6. formed as pittsylvania — “Pitt + sylvan + -ia”

Definitions

  1. Ellipsis of Pittsylvania County.

  2. A proposed name for a failed colony bid, in what would later become West Virginia.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Pittsylvania. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA