silvae

silvae is a Latin form of silva, meaning “forest, wood”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 150 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 3.28.3: Ad quarum initium silvarum cum Caesar pervenisset castraque munire instituisset neque hostis interim visus esset, dispersis in opere nostris subito ex omnibus partibus silvae evolaverunt et in nostros impetum fecerunt.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 2.216: in cinerem vertunt. Silvae cum montibus ardent,

Horace, Carmina 1.23.4: aurarum et siluae metu.

All forms of silva (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.