sylvain
French, noun/sil.vɛ̃/
sylvain is spelled S-Y-L-V-A-I-N (7 letters) and appears 7.8 times per million words in written French, the 8,090th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sylvain is a French masculine noun meaning “Any of a number of butterflies, especially some species of admiral” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Divinité des forêts, dans la mythologie latine”.
What does sylvain mean in English?
adjective
- 1
that lives in the forest, sylvan
- 2
of or from Forest-l'Abbaye
noun
- 1
masculineAny of a number of butterflies, especially some species of admiral
- 2
masculinea minor deity of forest, a sylvan
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui vit dans la forêt, sylvestre. 2. Relatif à Forest-l’Abbaye, commune de la Somme, en France.
noun: 1. Divinité des forêts, dans la mythologie latine. 2. Personne comparable au sylvain.
noun: 1. Habitant de Forest-l’Abbaye, commune française située dans le département de la Somme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of sylvain
- sylvaine feminine
- sylvains masculine plural
- sylvaines feminine plural
- Sylvains plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sylvain?
- /sil.vɛ̃/
- \sil.vɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sylvain
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sylvain in French?
sylvain appears 7.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).