sauvage
French
Etymology
From Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "France" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /so.vaʒ/
Audio: (file)
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "Canada" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /sɔ.vaʒ/
Audio: (file)
Adjective
sauvage (plural sauvages)
- wild, untamed, not domesticated
- coarse, unrefined
- uncontained, anarchic
- la publicité sauvage
- unregulated/unrestrained/excessive advertising
- (of a person) living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others
Derived terms
Adjective
sauvage (feminine sauvagesse, masculine plural sauvages, feminine plural sauvagesses)
Noun
sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)
- (especially Canada, obsolete, offensive, Louisiana) Amerindian
- (Louisiana) an Amerindian language
Further reading
- “sauvage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
sauvage
- Alternative form of savage
Norman
Etymology
From Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Adjective
sauvage m or f
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus. Compare Old Occitan sauvatge, salvatge.
Adjective
sauvage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sauvage)
Declension
Declension of sauvage
Descendants
Categories:
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms inherited from Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French terms with usage examples
- Canadian French
- French terms with obsolete senses
- French offensive terms
- Louisiana French
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Personality
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Norman terms inherited from Old French
- Norman terms derived from Old French
- Norman terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Norman terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Norman terms inherited from Latin
- Norman terms derived from Latin
- Norman terms with audio pronunciation
- Norman lemmas
- Norman adjectives
- Jersey Norman
- Old French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Old French terms inherited from Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French adjectives