Sylvester

Borrowed from Latin sylvester (“woody, rural”) from silva (“wood”); name of a saint whose feast day falls on December 31.

• IPA^(key): /sɪlˈvɛstɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)

Sylvester

1. A male given name from Latin used in English since the sixteenth century.
2. A surname.
3. A community in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
4. A city, the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Fisher County, Texas, United States.
6. A small town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
7. A town in Green County, Wisconsin, United States.

• Sylvester equation
• Sylvester-Gallai theorem
• Sylvester's criterion
• Sylvester's formula
• Sylvester's theorem

• Sylvestrine
• sylph
• sylvan (see for more terms)
• Silvia, Sylvia

From Latin sylvester.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsylʋester/, [ˈs̠ylʋe̞s̠te̞r]
• Rhymes: -ylʋester
• Syllabification^(key): Syl‧ves‧ter
• Hyphenation^(key): Syl‧ves‧ter

Sylvester

1. (rare as a first name) a male given name

• The given name Sylvester belongs to 43 male individuals (and as a middle name to 521 more, making it overwhelmingly more common as a middle name), and also belongs as a middle name to 5 female individuals, according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

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• Rhymes: -ɛstɐ

Sylvester

1. alternative form of Silvester