sylva

sylva (plural sylvas or sylvae)

1. Alternative spelling of silva.
   • 1854, Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852, page 42:

     A solitary cotton-wood, with an occasional clump of willows, constitute the sylva of this portion of the river.

• Lavys, Vasyl

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsyɫ.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsil.va]

sylva f (genitive sylvae); first declension

1. (considered to be less correct, proscribed) alternative form of silva

First-declension noun.

• “sylva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  “silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sylva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  “silva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sylva", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sylva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.