silva.
bramble (any of various thorny shrubs, especially those in the family Rubus)
Meaning & usage
bramble (any of various thorny shrubs, especially those in the family Rubus)
blackberry (Rubus fruticosus)
Where this word comes from
From Old Galician-Portuguese silva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“mountain, ridge, forest”). Compare the doublet selva and Galician silva. The /i/ is puzzling. Philologist Leite de Vasconcelos felt that the word was not a Latinism and conjectured a term spīna *silvea with the same suffix as ligneus and pīneus, where the close post-tonic vowel would cause the stressed vowel to rise, as in marisma and sirgo.
inflection of silvar: third-person singular present indicative
inflection of silvar: second-person singular imperative
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