How to pronounce sylph
American English pronunciation
SILF
- IPA
- /ˈsɪlf/
- Syllables
- SILF (1 syllable)
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What sylph means
An unseen spirit of the air in old stories
In a sentence: The poem imagines a sylph drifting over the meadow on a summer breeze.
Where it comes from: A thinker named Paracelsus made up the word in the 16th century, and it was first written in English in 1657. It may come from the Latin words for of the woods and nymph.
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