sylphid

/ˈsɪlfɪd/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

noun

"Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear."
"He insisted on it, and Lucilia, at length, placed her elegant foot on his hand, and darted so nimbly on horseback, that all her motions gave the idea of one of those sylphids, which imagination paints to us in such delicate colours."
"the palace of the sylphid queen"

From French sylphide. By surface analysis, sylph + -id.

sylphids (plural) sylphide (alternative)

sylphidic

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How do you pronounce sylphid?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪlfɪd/.

What does sylphid mean?

A young or little sylph.

Where does sylphid come from?

It is traced to French.

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