sylvan
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin silvanus, cognate with Latin Silvānus (“Roman god of the woods”), from silva (“forest”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood, matter”), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle. Analysable as sylva (“silva”) + -an.
Definitions
Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
- Broke by the jutting Land, on either ſide: / In double Streams the briny Waters glide. / Betwixt two rows of Rocks, a Sylvan Scene / Appears above, and Groves for ever green: […]
Residing in a forest or wood.
- Now, my Sacontalá, you are becomingly decorated: put on this lower veſt, the gift of ſylvan goddeſſes.
Wooded, or covered in forest.
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One who resides in the woods.
A fabled deity of the wood
A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr.
A surname.
A place name
A place name:
The neighborhood
- neighborPennsylvania
- neighborPittsylvania
- neighborsavage
- neighborSilas
- neighborsilva
- neighborSilvanus
- neighborSilvia
- neighborsilvicolous
- neighborsilvicultural
- neighborsilviculture
- neighborSilvius
- neighborsilvology
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at sylvan. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at sylvan. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at sylvan
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA