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silvarum

silvarum is a Latin form of silva, meaning “forest, wood”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 60 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.39.6: Qui se ex his minus timidos existimari volebant, non se hostem vereri, sed angustias itineris et magnitudinem silvarum quae intercederent inter ipsos atque Ariovistum, aut rem frumentariam, ut satis commode supportari posset, timere dicebant.

Martial, Epigrammata 5.65.5: Silvarumque tremor, tacita qui fraude solebat

Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 5.4e.6: quis enim plaustris uagos et siluarum latebris corpora sua tegentes in modumque ferarum laniatu pecudum uiuentes sic Dario respondere docuit? illa …

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.