silvar

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From Old Galician-Portuguese silvar, *sivlar, from Latin sibilāre (“to hiss”), with metathesis. Compare the borrowed doublet sibilar. Cognate with Spanish silbar. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: sil‧var === Verb === silvar (first-person singular present silvo, first-person singular preterite silvei, past participle silvado) to hiss Synonym: sibilar to whistle ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== silvo === Further reading === “silvar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “silvar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026