silva
Example Sentences
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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
Groves, 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
The silva of the Western Cascades is rich in evergreens remarkable for their size and beauty.
From The Forests of Mount Rainier National Park by Grenville F. Allen
