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

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)

It is a moonlit plain compared with the "silva oscura" of the "Divina Commedia".

From Life of Robert Browning by Sharp, William