sylvestre
French, adjective/sil.vɛstʁ/
sylvestre is spelled S-Y-L-V-E-S-T-R-E (9 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sylvestre is a French adjective meaning “sylvan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui vit, croît dans la forêt”.
What does sylvestre mean in English?
adjective
- 1
sylvan
Near-synonym: forestier
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui vit, croît dans la forêt. 2. Se dit d’une personne qui vit dans la forêt. 3. Relatif à la forêt. 4. Couvert de bois, de forêts, en parlant d’un lieu.
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 sylvestre
- sylvestres plural
- silvestre
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sylvestre?
- /sil.vɛstʁ/
- \sil.vɛstʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sylvestre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sylvestre in French?
sylvestre appears 2.5 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).