silves
Portuguese, verb
silves is spelled S-I-L-V-E-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese, the 38,177th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Silves is a Portuguese verb meaning “second-person singular present subjunctive of silvar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo silvar”.
What does silves mean in English?
verb
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second-person singular present subjunctive of silvar
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Amazonas 2. município e freguesia portugueses do distrito de Faro
verb: 1. segunda pessoa do singular do imperativo negativo do verbo silvar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How common is silves in Portuguese?
silves appears about once in every 1 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).