The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsylvester“woody, rural”
- English todaySylvester
Borrowed from Latin sylvester (“woody, rural”) from silva (“wood”); name of a saint whose feast day falls on December 31.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sylvester
Today it means: A ratchet device for pulling out pit props. Full definition →
Latin sylvester