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

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

Domus mea silva est, lectus meus durus est.

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan

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

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