selvaggio
Meaning
Concepts
Synonyms
non coltivato
forèsticu
fèru
sarvàticu
contario
incivilizzato
piantumato ad alberi
uomo del monte
uomo della foresta
non domato
non addomesticato
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sel‧vàg‧gio
Pronounced as (IPA)
/selˈvad.d͡ʒo/
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan salvatge, from Vulgar Latin *salvāticus, from Latin silvāticus (“of the woods”). Doublet of the inherited selvatico. Compare Sicilian sarbaggiu, Spanish salvaje, Portuguese selvagem, Catalan salvatge, Piedmontese salvaj.
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