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 Butler, Harold Edgeworth

Woods, St. Silvester, 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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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 Allen, Grenville F.