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

Silvicola, from silva, woods and colo, to inhabit.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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

The last half of the name is probably the Latin silva.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.