salvaje
Meaning
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- (especially,feminine,masculine) wild, savage (untamed, not domesticated)
- (feminine,masculine) savage, feral, uncivilized (said of a person)
Concepts
wild
savage
untamed
fierce
ferocious
uncivilized
feral
vicious
boisterous
rampant
heathen
shy
hostile
enemy
rebel
rival
villain
warrior
tattered
barren
stubborn
jungle dweller
beast
barbarian
barbaric
uncivilised
barbarous
brutal
cruel
fell
roughshod
tigerish
ferine
furious
incivil
lout
tameless
wrathy
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sal‧va‧je
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/salˈbaxe/
Etymology
First attested 1335; borrowed from Old Catalan and Occitan or Old Occitan salvatge, sauvatge, from Vulgar Latin salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”), from silva (“forest, grove”). Doublet of selvático.
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