sauvage

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

• (France) IPA^(key): /so.vaʒ/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /sɔ.vaʒ/

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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

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

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

sauvage m (plural sauvages, feminine sauvagesse)

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

• “sauvage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sauvage

1. Alternative form of savage

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

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sauvage m or f

1. (Jersey) wild; untamed

• salvage

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

sauvage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular sauvage)

1. wild; untamed

• French: sauvage
• Norman: sauvage (Jersey)
• → Middle English: savage, salvage, saveage, sauvage, salvage
  • English: savage
  • Scots: savage