sauvage
See also: Sauvage
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French sauvage, salvage, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus, from silva (“forest”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sauvage (plural sauvages)
- wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
- Antonym: anthropisé
- une région sauvage ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- wild, untamed, not domesticated (often used to qualify a wild alternative or pendant for a cultivated plant or domestic animal)
- Synonyms: des champs, des prés, des bois, (Antilles, Réunion) marron
- Antonyms: cultivé, domestique
- de l'ail sauvage ― wild garlic, wood garlic
- un chat sauvage ― a (European) wildcat
- un animal sauvage ― a wild animal
- feral
- Synonyms: ensauvagé, féral, (Antilles, Réunion) marron
- un enfant sauvage ― a feral child
- primitive, uncivilized
- coarse, unrefined
- Synonym: rustique
- uncontained, anarchic; unregulated; unauthorized
- Synonym: anarchique
- la publicité sauvage ― unauthorized advertising
- une grève sauvage ― a wildcat strike
- du camping sauvage ― wild camping or dispersed camping
- asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others)
- Synonym: asocial
- (North America, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)
- (derogatory) barbarian, savage
- (derogatory) hermit, recluse
- (North America, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian
- (Louisiana) an Amerindian language
Further reading
[edit]- “sauvage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]sauvage
- 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]Adjective
[edit]sauvage m or f
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)
Declension
[edit]| Case | masculine | feminine | neuter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | subject | sauvages | sauvage | sauvage |
| oblique | sauvage | |||
| plural | subject | sauvage | sauvages | |
| oblique | sauvages |
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