sylph

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. An invisible being of the air.
2. The elemental being of air, usually female.
3. (broadly) A slender woman or girl, usually graceful and sometimes with the implication of sublime station over everyday people.
4. Any of the mainly dark green and blue hummingbirds (genus Aglaiocercus), the male of which has a long forked tail.

Konzepte

Sylphe

Luftgeist

Sylphide

Synonyme

pixy

fairy

🧚

fay

faery

mermaid

🧜‍♀️

naiad

nix

nymph

sprite

undine

water nymph

Nereid

brownie

sylphid

elf

🧝

faerie

Übersetzungen

sylphide

sylphe

sílfide

sílfide

silfo

zarif

silfide

silfo

sílfide

ince

güzel kız

silf

Silfo

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/sɪlf/

Etymologie (Englisch)

First attested in 1657. From New Latin sylphes, coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”). Ultimately from the root silva (“woods, forest”). Related to sylvan.
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