The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
French version of “Silvia” / “Sylvia“, feminine form of the Latin name “Silvius”, meaning “of the forest”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Silva, Silvia, Silvie, Silviya, Silvy, Syl, Sylva, Sylvi, Sylvia, Sylwia, Szilvia, etc.

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Sylvie Lamonte (called “Sylvia” or “Syl“), the “little dryad that had slipped from some rose-tree’s bark” who Doctor Tom cures, in “The Story of Little Syl”, from The Youngest Miss Lorton, and Other Stories by Nora Perry (1889). 

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