sauvage

French

Etymology

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

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

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

Adjective

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

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

Noun

sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)

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

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

sauvage

  1. Alternative form of savage

Norman

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
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Adjective

sauvage m or f

  1. (Jersey) wild; untamed

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)

  1. wild; untamed; barbarian

Declension
Declension of sauvage
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject sauvages sauvage sauvage
Oblique sauvage sauvage sauvage
Plural Subject sauvage sauvages sauvage
Oblique sauvages sauvages sauvage

Descendants
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