Sylvester
m.
Latin silvestris 'wooded, wild', from Latin silva 'woodland'.
The name of three popes and an anti-pope, and two 12th C saints.
- England
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- Latin
- ● 1408 Silvester (nom) GCCYork p.11
- English
- ● 1560 Silvester BUmar-vol2 p. 60;
1577 Silvester DEmar-vol1 p. 83;
1585 Silvester DEmar-vol2 p. 11;
1590 Silvester BUmar-vol1 p. 17,
DEmar-vol1 p. 86;
1591 Silvester BUmar-vol2 p. 118;
1594 Silvester DEmar-vol2 p. 30
- France
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- Latin
- ● 1135 Silvester (nom) clairvaux-12thc 7;
1147x62 Silvester (nom) ibid. 48;
1180 Silvestris (gen) RotScaNor p. 27
- Old French
- ● 1313 Selvestre Paris1313 p. 30
- Middle French
- ● 1392 Sevestre MemBret-II col. 607
- Italy
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- Latin
- ● 1348 Silvestrum (acc) INP 24,
Sylvestri (gen) ibid. 25;
1522x1532 Silvester (nom) DSF p. 51, 13,
Silvestri (gen) ibid. p. 51, 13
Cite as: N. Shiel, S.L. Uckelman. "Sylvester". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2015, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2015/2/name/Sylvester.