Elva

Elva f (proper noun, genitive singular Elvu)

1. a female given name

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(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛɫ.wa]

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛl.va]

Elva m sg (genitive Elvae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Titus Aebutius Elva, a Roman consul

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Elva”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray