Sylva,-ae (s.f.I): woodland, forest, wood; ‘silva,-ae (s.f.I)’ is usual in classical Latin, ‘sylva,-ae’ in Bot. Latin; ‘sylva’ has a greater abundance of trees, so is more representative of a forest than nemus,-oris (s.n.III) q.v., an open woodland with glades; a lucus,-i (s.m.II) is a sacred grove, a wood; a saltus,-us (s.m.IV) is a montane forest, also a pass through a mountain or forest, a glade, a mountain forest or pasture; see hyl-, hyle-, hylo-: in Gk. comp. wood, pertaining to the woods; see forest; see wood; cf. nemus,-oris (s.n.III), saltus,-us (s.m.IV),