sauvage

Signification

Adj

1. wild, untouched, unspoiled, pristine
2. wild, untamed, not domesticated (often used to qualify a wild alternative or pendant for a cultivated plant or domestic animal)
3. feral
4. primitive, uncivilized
5. coarse, unrefined
6. uncontained, anarchic; unregulated; unauthorized
7. asocial, recluse (living in an eccentric, isolated way, not interested in social contact or appealing to others)
8. (obsolete) Amerindian

Noun

1. barbarian, savage
2. hermit, recluse
3. (obsolete) Amerindian
4. an Amerindian language

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/so.vaʒ/

Étymologie

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