sylphid

English

Etymology

From French sylphide. See sylph.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlfɪd/

Noun

sylphid (plural sylphids)

(poetic) A young or little sylph.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
  the palace of the sylphid queen
- 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], OCLC 228744960, canto II:
  Ye sylphs and sylphids, to your chief give ear.

Further reading

sylphid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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