selva
Meaning
- (feminine) jungle
- (feminine) woods, forest
- (feminine,figuratively) mass, multitude, forest
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sel‧va
Gender
♀️ Feminine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈsɛw.vɐ/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doublet silva.
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