Femenino

sílfide

Significado (Inglés)

  1. (feminine, form-of) female equivalent of silfo
  2. (feminine) sylph (slender woman or girl)

silfo

sylph (the elemental being of air)

Sinónimos

Silfo

Traducciones

Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈsiw.fi.d͡ʒi/
Etimología (Inglés)

In summary

Borrowed from French sylphide, from New Latin sylphes, coined by Swiss occultist Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”), or otherwise Ancient Greek σίλφη (sílphē, “beetle”). More at sylph.

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