1. s.v. - Noun
2. s.v. - Phrase
s.v. (plural s.vv.)
Used to refer to an entry in a dictionary or encyclopedia: under the word(s).
Transcendentalism is a recent school of philosophy (Some Dictionary of Philosophy, s.v. Transcendentalism (School)).
S.V. (uncountable)
(nautical) Alternative form of SV
According to his version the king was killed in a conspiracy by a man close to him, called Hilmegis (Paul's Helmechis), Martindale 1992, s.v. Hilmegis, p. 599 with the connivance of the queen. Source: Internet
A later and separate English reflex of discus, probably through medieval Latin desca, is desk (see OED s.v. desk). Source: Internet
At first, each citizen appears to have merely given the value of his whole property in general without entering into details; Dionysius iv.15; Cicero de Legibus iii.3; Festus, s.v. Censores. Source: Internet
Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World s.v. Ovid Literary success The first 25 years of Ovid's literary career were spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter with erotic themes. Source: Internet
British author George Orwell (in English People, 1947, cited in OED s.v. lose) criticized an alleged "American tendency" to "burden every verb with a preposition that adds nothing to its meaning (win out, lose out, face up to, etc.)". Source: Internet
Edited from the Original Manuscripts, 1949, s.v. "Francis Bacon, Viscount of St. Albans" p. 11. biographers continue to debate Bacon's sexual inclinations and the precise nature of his personal relationships. Source: Internet