silvas

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

Found 249 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.12.3: Eos impeditos et inopinantes adgressus magnam partem eorum concidit; reliqui sese fugae mandarunt atque in proximas silvas abdiderunt.

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 100.4: … leo condiderunt. id opus inter Flaminiam uiam ripamque Tiberis sexto suo consulatu extruxerat circumiectasque siluas et ambulationes in usum populi iam tum publicarat.

Phaedrus, Fabulae 2.1.10: Silvas petivit, homini ut accessum daret.

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.