Noun: sílfide
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | silfo |
| Singular f | sílfide |
| Plural m | silfos |
| Plural f | sílfides |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like sílfide
sílfide,
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. More at sylph. See: French Nouns '
sylphide', Latin Nouns '
sylvestris', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σίλφη'.
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