sauvage

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (forest).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (France) IPA(key): /so.vaʒ/
    • (file)
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /sɔ.vaʒ/

Adjective[edit]

sauvage (plural sauvages)

  1. wild, untamed, not domesticated
  2. coarse, unrefined
  3. uncontained, anarchic
    la publicité sauvage
    unregulated/unrestrained/excessive advertising
  4. (of a person) living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others

Derived terms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

sauvage (feminine sauvagesse, masculine plural sauvages, feminine plural sauvagesses)

  1. (especially Canada, obsolete, offensive) (Louisiana, offensive) Amerindian

Noun[edit]

sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)

  1. (especially Canada, obsolete, offensive, Louisiana) Amerindian
  2. (Louisiana) an Amerindian language

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

sauvage

  1. Alternative form of savage

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (forest).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Adjective[edit]

sauvage m or f

  1. (Jersey) wild; untamed

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus. Compare Old Occitan sauvatge, salvatge.

Adjective[edit]

sauvage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sauvage)

  1. wild; untamed

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]