Silas (name) The Latin name "Silvanus" may be derived from pre-Roman Italian languages. Silas (name) Silas is a common given name and a lesser-known surname. It is a cognate of Silvanus. Silas as a name today comes from the early Christian disciple Silas. He is consistently called "Silas" in Acts, but the Latin Silvanus, which means "of the forest," is always used by Paul and in the First Epistle of Peter; it is likely that "Silvanus" is the Romanized version of the original "Silas," or that "Silas" is the Greek nickname for "Silvanus." It has been suggested that Silas is the Greek
English words of Greek origin separately rather than forming a single vowel sound or one of them becoming silent ("e.g.", "Andreas" "vs." "creature"). Though many English words derived from Greek through the literary route drop the inflectional endings ("tripod", "zoology", "pentagon") or use Latin endings ("papyrus", "mausoleum"), some preserve the Greek endings: "lexicon, "schema (-∅)", "topos, "kudos, "chaos, "climax (-s)", "agape, "psyche, "crisis, "nemesis. In the case of Greek endings, the plurals sometimes follow the Greek rules: "phenomenon, phenomena"; "tetrahedron, tetrahedra"; "crisis, crises"; "hypothesis, hypotheses"; "polis, poleis"; "stigma, stigmata"; "topos, topoi"; "cyclops, cyclopes"; but often do not: "colon, colons" not "*cola" (except for the very