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
The meaning of the word silva, in the literary sense, is 'raw material' or 'rough draft'.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Forests, St. Sylvester, because silva, in Latin, means “a wood.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Sometimes v becomes u; as,— silua for silva; dissoluō for dissolvō.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
