sauvage
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sauvage (plural sauvages)
Adjective[edit]
sauvage (feminine singular sauvagesse, masculine plural sauvages, feminine plural sauvagesses)
- (especially Canada, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian
Noun[edit]
sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)
- (especially Canada, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian
Further reading[edit]
- “sauvage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).
Pronunciation[edit]
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Audio (Jersey) (file)
Adjective[edit]
sauvage m, f
Old French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
sauvage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sauvage)
Declension[edit]
Declension of sauvage
Descendants[edit]
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- French terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
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- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- Canadian French
- French terms with obsolete senses
- French offensive terms
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Norman terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Norman terms derived from Latin
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- Norman lemmas
- Norman adjectives
- Jersey Norman
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- Old French adjectives
