silva

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The fans were devastated, had spent a fortune going to the games.. yet tevez and silva walked off pitch laughing and joking - suppose they were going to get their c200k for weeks work.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2012

In Latin silva is a wood but also the collection of raw materials needed for a building.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

Silvicola, from silva, woods and colo, to inhabit.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Crux fidelis, inter omnes Arbor una nobilis, Nulla silva talem profert Fronde, flore, germine.

From Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies by Goepp, Philip H.

Sometimes v becomes u; as,— silua for silva; dissoluō for dissolvō.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)