sílfide
See also: silfide
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- sylphide (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from French sylphide, from New Latin sylphes, coined by Swiss occultist Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”), or otherwise Ancient Greek σίλφη (sílphē, “beetle”).
More at sylph.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsiw.fi.d͡ʒi/ [ˈsiʊ̯.fi.d͡ʒi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsiw.fi.de/ [ˈsiʊ̯.fi.de]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈsil.fi.dɨ/ [ˈsiɫ.fi.ðɨ]
- Hyphenation: síl‧fi‧de
Noun
sílfide f (plural sílfides)
Related terms
- silfídico
- silfo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsilfide/ [ˈsil.fi.ð̞e]
- Rhymes: -ilfide
- Syllabification: síl‧fi‧de
Noun
sílfide f (plural sílfides)
Hypernyms
Further reading
- “sílfide”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024