sylvan

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to the forest, or woodlands.
• Residing in a forest or wood.
• Wooded, or covered in forest.

Noun

• One who resides in the woods.
• A fabled deity of the wood; a faun, a satyr.

Related

Similar words

• forestlike, foresty
• grovy

Origin

• Borrowed from Medieval Latin sylvanus, possibly via Middle French sylvain, from Latin Silvānus ("Roman god of the woods"), from silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel-. The ⟨y⟩ in sylvanus and its descendants is due to influence from Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη ("wood, matter"), transliterated in the Latin style as hyle.