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selva.

forest, wood

5 characters2 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈsel.va//ˈsɛl.va/
  1. forest, wood

    feminine
  2. wood (material), woodland

    broadly · feminine · poetic
  3. mass, multitude, forest

    feminine · figuratively
Where this word comes from

From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).

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