silvestris
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Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From silva (“woods, forest”) + -estris.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /silˈu̯es.tris/, [s̠ɪɫ̪ˈu̯ɛs̠t̪rɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /silˈves.tris/, [silˈvɛst̪ris]
Adjective
[edit]silvestris (neuter silvestre); third-declension two-termination adjective
- Of or pertaining to a forest or wood
- forested, wooded, overgrown with trees
- rural, wild, living in forests
Declension
[edit]Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | silvestris | silvestre | silvestrēs | silvestria | |
Genitive | silvestris | silvestrium | |||
Dative | silvestrī | silvestribus | |||
Accusative | silvestrem | silvestre | silvestrēs silvestrīs |
silvestria | |
Ablative | silvestrī | silvestribus | |||
Vocative | silvestris | silvestre | silvestrēs | silvestria |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- France:
- Franco-Provençal: [ʃaˈviθro]
- Occitan: sauvestre (Niçard)
- Old French: sevestre, sovestre
- Middle French: sevest (hapax)
- ⇒ Norman: chevrestre (crossed with chevre 'goat'?)
- Italy:
- ⇒ Italian: salvastrella (“burnet plant”)
- Piedmontese: svestru (“water salamander”)
- Sardinian: silivestru (“mistletoe”)
- Borrowings:
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĭlvĕstris”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 621
Further reading
[edit]- “silvestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silvestris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silvestris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.