sylphe – French noun declension

Noun: sylphe
Gender: m Hyphenation:

Singular m	sylphe
Plural m	sylphes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like sylphe

trichogramme, wintergreen, urinoir, contrespionnage, aréomètre, palefroi, whiskey, whippin, tee-shirt, hypocycloïde, surrisque, lanternon, dissentiment, phonogramme, phonographe, trioxygène, fétichisme, synode, synthé, modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From New Latin sylphes, sylphi, coined by Paracelsus in the 16th century, possibly based on a combination of Latin sylvestris (“from the woods”) + nympha (“nymph”), or otherwise Ancient Greek σίλφη (sílphē, “beetle”).
2. More at sylph. See: Latin Nouns 'sylvestris', Ancient Greek Nouns 'σίλφη'.

Verbs referencing "sylphe"

Italian Nouns silfide, Polish Nouns sylf, Romanian Nouns silf.

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