"selva" meaning in Italian

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "selvicoltore"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "selvicultore"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "silva"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin silva",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sel-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sel-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selve",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "selva f (plural selve)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sél‧va"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "salvastrella"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "selvaggio"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "selvatico"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "selvoso"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "silvano"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "silvestre"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "silvicolo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a dark forest, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.",
          "ref": "1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:",
          "text": "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forest, wood"
      ],
      "id": "en-selva-it-noun-P9CTAAIr",
      "links": [
        [
          "forest",
          "forest"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "9 83 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "… and may she not be changed to green woodland,\nissuing from my arms, as on the day\nwhen Apollo pursued her down here on earth.",
          "ref": "1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII",
          "roman": "che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.",
          "text": "[...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,\nper uscirmi di braccia come il giorno",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wood (material), woodland"
      ],
      "id": "en-selva-it-noun-ILzXQsVM",
      "links": [
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ],
        [
          "woodland",
          "woodland"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "feminine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We ceased not to advance because he spake,\nbut still were passing onward through the forest,\nthe forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.",
          "ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:",
          "text": "Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,\nma passavam la selva tuttavia,\nla selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mass, multitude, forest"
      ],
      "id": "en-selva-it-noun-OMVWOIps",
      "links": [
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "multitude",
          "multitude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) mass, multitude, forest"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsel.va/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛl.va/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-elva"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛlva"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bosco"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "foresta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "selva"
}

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    "Italian feminine nouns",
    "Italian lemmas",
    "Italian nouns",
    "Italian terms derived from Latin",
    "Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Italian terms inherited from Latin",
    "Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 8 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Italian/elva",
    "Rhymes:Italian/elva/2 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Italian/ɛlva",
    "Rhymes:Italian/ɛlva/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "selvicoltore"
    },
    {
      "word": "selvicultore"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "silva"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin silva",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sel-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sel-",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin silva, from Proto-Indo-European *sel-, *swel- (“beam, board, frame, threshold”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "selve",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "selva f (plural selve)",
      "name": "it-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sél‧va"
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "salvastrella"
    },
    {
      "word": "selvaggio"
    },
    {
      "word": "selvatico"
    },
    {
      "word": "selvoso"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvano"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvestre"
    },
    {
      "word": "silvicolo"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Midway upon the journey of our life ¶ I found myself within a dark forest, ¶ for the straightforward pathway had been lost.",
          "ref": "1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:",
          "text": "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita ¶ mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, ¶ ché la diritta via era smarrita.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "forest, wood"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "forest",
          "forest"
        ],
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian poetic terms",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "… and may she not be changed to green woodland,\nissuing from my arms, as on the day\nwhen Apollo pursued her down here on earth.",
          "ref": "1374, Francesco Petrarca, Il Canzoniere, Andrea Bettini (1858), p.188, Capitolo XIII",
          "roman": "che Apollo la seguia quaggiù per terra.",
          "text": "[...] e non si trasformasse in verde selva,\nper uscirmi di braccia come il giorno",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wood (material), woodland"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wood",
          "wood"
        ],
        [
          "woodland",
          "woodland"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, poetic) wood (material), woodland"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "feminine",
        "poetic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "We ceased not to advance because he spake,\nbut still were passing onward through the forest,\nthe forest, say I, of thick-crowded ghosts.",
          "ref": "1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto IV, p. 57, vv. 64-66:",
          "text": "Non lasciavam l'andar perch'ei dicessi,\nma passavam la selva tuttavia,\nla selva, dico, di spiriti spessi.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mass, multitude, forest"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "multitude",
          "multitude"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) mass, multitude, forest"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsel.va/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsɛl.va/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-elva"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛlva"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bosco"
    },
    {
      "word": "foresta"
    }
  ],
  "word": "selva"
}