Savage
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| From Old French ''sauvage'', ''salvage'' (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin ''salvaticus'', alteration of Latin ''silvaticus'' (“wild"; literally, "of the woods”), from ''[[silva]]'' (“forest", "grove”). | From Old French ''sauvage'', ''salvage'' (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin ''salvaticus'', alteration of Latin ''silvaticus'' (“wild"; literally, "of the woods”), from ''[[silva]]'' (“forest", "grove”). | ||
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| *[[Fauve]] | *[[Fauve]] | ||
| *''[[The Sexual Life of the Savages]]'' | *''[[The Sexual Life of the Savages]]'' | ||
| *''[[The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia]]'' | *''[[The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia]]'' | ||
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The noun savage may refer to a noble savage, a person uncorrupted by the influences of civilisation or a pejorative term for a tribal person. As an adjective it means wild and not cultivated; barbaric and uncivilized; fierce and ferocious; brutal, vicious or merciless as in that woman across the street died from a savage murder.
Etymology
From Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin salvaticus, alteration of Latin silvaticus (“wild"; literally, "of the woods”), from silva (“forest", "grove”).
See also
- Wild animal
- Fauve
- The Sexual Life of the Savages
- The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia
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