Adjective: salvaje
Hyphenation: sal‧va‧je
| Singular m. | salvaje |
| Singular f. | salvaje |
Sample Sentences
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Sólo hay una cosa que puede calmar la bestia salvaje. (There is only one thing that can soothe the savage beast.)
Adjectives inflected like salvaje
egocentrista,
cervantista,
ionizante,
antenupcial,
posgradual,
milimolar,
renovable,
lunisolar,
innumerable,
disfuncional,
deflacionista,
antiindependentista,
minifundista,
serial,
servil,
septal,
estravagante,
sexual,
secuaz,
seglar, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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. See: Latin Adjectives '
silvāticus'.
Verbs referencing "salvaje"
Italian Adjectives
selvaggio.
Translations