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See also:Selvaandselvä

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromPortugueseselva, fromLatinsilva.Doublet ofsilva.

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Noun

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selva (pluralselvas)

  1. Heavilyforested ground in theAmazonbasin.

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heavily forested ground in the Amazon basin

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Navarro-Aragoneseselva, fromLatinsilva, fromProto-Indo-European*sel-,*swel-(“beam, board, frame, threshold”). CompareCatalanselva,Spanishselva.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈselba/
  • Syllabification:sel‧va
  • Rhymes:-elba

Noun

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selva f

  1. forest
    Synonym:bosque
  2. jungle,rainforest

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Asturian

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AsturianWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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FromLatinsilva.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈselba/[ˈsel.β̞a]
  • Rhymes:-elba
  • Syllabification:sel‧va

Noun

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selva f (pluralselves)

  1. rainforest

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Catalanselva, fromLatinsilva, fromProto-Indo-European*sel-,*swel-(“beam, board, frame, threshold”). CompareOccitanselva,Spanishselva.

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selva f (pluralselves)

  1. jungle,rainforest

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Italian

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Etymology

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FromLatinsilva, fromProto-Indo-European*sel-,*swel-(“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

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Noun

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selva f (pluralselve)

  1. forest,wood
  2. (by extension, poetic)wood(material),woodland
    • 1374,Francesco Petrarca,Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII:
      [...] e non si trasformasse in verdeselva,
      per uscirmi di braccia come il giorno
      che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.
      [...] and may she not be changed to greenwoodland,
      issuing from my arms, as on the day
      when Apollo pursued her down here on earth.
  3. (figurative)mass,multitude, forest
    • 1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published1994,Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:
      Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,
      ma passavam laselva tuttavia,
      laselva, dico, di spiriti spessi.
      We ceased not to advance because he spake,
      but still were passing onward through theforest,
      theforest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.

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References

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  1. ^selva inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latvian

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Noun

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selva f (4th declension)

  1. selva

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Declension ofselva (4th)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominativeselvaselvas
genitiveselvasselvu
dativeselvaiselvām
accusativeselvuselvas
instrumentalselvuselvām
locativeselvāselvās
vocativeselvaselvas

Old Spanish

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Etymology

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    Inherited fromLatinsilva.[1]

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    selva f (pluralselvas)

    1. forest

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    References

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    1. ^Coromines, Joan (1961), “selva”, inBreve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page529

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    FromOld Galician-Portuguese, fromLatinsilva, fromProto-Indo-European*sel-,*swel-(“beam, board, frame, threshold”). Compare the doubletsilva.

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    selva f (pluralselvas)

    1. jungle
      O leão é o rei daselva.
      The lion is the king of thejungle.
    2. woods,forest
      Synonyms:floresta;see alsoThesaurus:floresta
    3. (figuratively)mass,multitude, forest

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    • 1844: O apertado revolver das armas formava umaselva de ferros em volta dos dois capitães inimigos, através da qual debalde o conde de Septum buscara multas vezes abrir caminho para ferir Teodomiro, até que finalmente, galgando por cima de um árabe derribado, pudera vibrar um golpe. —Alexandre Herculano,"Eurico, o Presbítero".

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    Spanish

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    SpanishWikipedia has an article on:
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    Laselva ―Thejungle

    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European[Term?]der.?
    Old Spanishselva
    Spanishselva

      Inherited fromOld Spanishselva, fromLatinsilva,[1] fromProto-Indo-European*sel-,*swel-(“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

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      selva f (pluralselvas)

      1. jungle
        Synonym:jungla
        selva tropical ―tropicalrainforest
      2. forest
        Synonym:bosque

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      References

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      1. ^Coromines, Joan (1961), “selva”, inBreve diccionario etimológico de la lengua castellana [Brief etymological dictionary of the Spanish language] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos,→ISBN, page529

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      laves,levas,salve,vales,valse,velas

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