silvanus

silvanus [CL] 1 belonging to woodlands; that lives in woodlands; b (passing into surname). montanus, ~us, cappatus, tunicatus Bacon XV 205. b 11‥ testibus ‥ Simone Vitulo, Radulfo ~o, Ricardo Senescallo Feod. Durh. 141n. 2 (in plant names): a (barba ~a) great plantain (Plantago major); b (herba ~a) sweet woodruff (Asperula odorata). c (lingua ~a) alkanet, bugloss (Anchusa officinalis or arvensis). a barba ~a, i. plantago, A. weybred MS Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 1. 13 f. 29. b herba ~a, woderove MS BL Harley 2558 f. 4. c †ligna [lingua] ~a, langdebef MS Camb. UL Dd. 11. 45 f. 108rb. 3 (Roman) god of woodland or uncultivated land; b (as personal name). ~i dii arborum J. Foxton Cosm. C. 86. 3; wodewose, ~us, -i, satirus PP; ~us, a wodewose WW. b Clemens Silvanus duodenis scandit ad astra Kal. M. A. 49.

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