Saltus versus silva

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I just learned a new latin word: saltus - a wooded pasture, forest, upland.

Does anyone know how saltus differs from silva in usage?

Ago tibi,
Rob Carignan

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It’s mountain forest

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From Döderlein’s Hand-book of Latin Synonymes:

Silva > (ὕλη) denotes a wood, in a general sense, merely with reference to the timber, like ὕλη; whereas > saltus > (ἄλσος) as a wild place, or wood in the midst of mountains, like νάπη

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The synonymes of the Latin language, Hill (1804): sylva, nemus, saltus, lucus.

P.S. Here are computer dictionaries of Latin synonyms.