Noun: selva
Gender: f
Hyphenation: sel‧va
| Singular f | selva |
| Plural f | selvas |
Sample Sentences
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selva tropical (tropical rainforest)
Nouns inflected like selva
enlatadora,
gencianilla,
paletada,
interneurona,
palestra,
quinacridona,
uridina,
bacinilla,
sopaipilla,
histerectomía,
desaveniencia,
baicaleína,
mesanina,
delicatessen,
hipertrigliceridemia,
teleasistencia,
sequía,
serifa,
seroja,
sesera, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.?
3. Latin silva
4. Old Spanish selva
5. Spanish selva
6. Inherited from Old Spanish selva, from Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”). See: Old Spanish Nouns '
selva', Old Spanish Nouns '
selva', Latin Nouns '
silva'.
Verbs referencing "selva"
Catalan Nouns
selva, Russian Nouns
сельва.
Translations