sauvage

See also: 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, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
    Antonym: anthropisé
    une région sauvage ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. 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
  3. feral
    Synonyms: ensauvagé, féral, (Antilles, Réunion) marron
    un enfant sauvage ― a feral child
  4. primitive, uncivilized
    Synonym: primitif
    Antonym: civilisé
  5. coarse, unrefined
    Synonym: rustique
  6. 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
  7. asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others)
    Synonym: asocial
  8. (North America, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian

Derived terms

Noun

sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)

  1. (derogatory) barbarian, savage
  2. (derogatory) hermit, recluse
  3. (North America, obsolete, offensive) Amerindian
  4. (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

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

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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