sílfide

• sylphide (obsolete)

Borrowed from French sylphide, from New Latin sylphes, coined by Swiss occultist Paracelsus in the 16th century. The coinage may derive from Latin sylvestris (“of the woods”) and nympha (“nymph”), or otherwise Ancient Greek σίλφη (sílphē, “beetle”).

More at sylph.

• Hyphenation: síl‧fi‧de

sílfide f (plural sílfides)

1. female equivalent of silfo
2. sylph (slender woman or girl)

   Synonyms: esbelta, magra

• silfídico
• silfo

• IPA^(key): /ˈsilfide/ [ˈsil.fi.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ilfide
• Syllabification: síl‧fi‧de

sílfide f (plural sílfides)

1. (alchemy, folklore) sylph

• elemental

• “sílfide”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28