Sylvester
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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
- Early Modern English
- ● 1560 Silvester BUmar-vol2 p. 60;
1571/2 Selvister RegBisham p. 3;
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
- ● 969 Silvestri (gen) CartSavII 4;
1135 Silvester (nom) clairvaux-12thc 7;
1147x62 Silvester (nom) ibid. 48;
1173 Silvestri (gen) ibid. 154;
1180 Silvestris (gen) RotScaNor p. 27
- Old French
- ● 1313 Selvestre Paris1313 p. 30
- Middle French
- ● 1392 Sevestre MemBret-II col. 607;
1563 Silvestre RegPCC-1 p. 33,
Sylvestre ibid. p. 43;
1564 Silvestre ibid. p. 44;
1565 Silvestre ibid. p. 121
- Italy
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- Latin
- ● 999 Sylvestro (abl) HGSav-4.1 p. 1;
1348 Silvestrum (acc) INP 24,
Sylvestri (gen) ibid. 25;
1464 Silvester (nom) CUP-III-I CCXXXI;
1522x1532 Silvester (nom) DSF p. 51, 13,
Silvestri (gen) ibid. p. 51, 13
- Portugal
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- Latin
- ● 1256 Silvester (nom) PHGCRP-I no. 17
- Portuguese-Galician
- ● 1238 Sylvestre PHGCRP-I no. 22b
- Sweden
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- Early Modern Swedish
- ◑ 1543 Silvets (gen) Audén1980 p. 163
Cite as: R. Le Get, N. Shiel, S.L. Uckelman. "Sylvester". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2016/2/name/Sylvester.