vild
English
Etymology
As if the past participle of a verb *to vile. See vile (adjective).
Adjective
vild (comparative more vild, superlative most vild)
- (obsolete) vile
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Ye have rooted all the Relicks out
Of that vild Race, and 'stablished my Peace.
- Ye have rooted all the Relicks out
- (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse villr (“wild”) and Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.
Pronunciation
Adjective
vild
Inflection
Inflection of vild | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | vild | vildere | vildest2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | vildt | vildere | vildest2 |
Plural | vilde | vildere | vildest2 |
Definite attributive1 | vilde | vildere | vildeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Old Norse
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *wiliþō, from *wiljaz.
Noun
vild f
Descendants
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse villr (“wild”) and Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.
Pronunciation
audio: (file)
Adjective
Inflection of vild | |||
---|---|---|---|
Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
Common singular | vild | vildare | vildast |
Neuter singular | vilt | vildare | vildast |
Plural | vilda | vildare | vildast |
Masculine plural3 | vilde | vildare | vildast |
Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
Masculine singular1 | vilde | vildare | vildaste |
All | vilda | vildare | vildaste |
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic |
vild
- wild
- not tame or domesticated
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