Adjective: selvaggio
Hyphenation: sel‧vàg‧gio
| Singular m. | selvaggio |
| Singular f. | selvaggia |
| Plural m. | selvaggi |
| Plural f. | selvagge |
Sample Sentences
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Ahi quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura ¶ esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte ¶ che nel pensier rinova la paura! (Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear) [1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto I, page 6, lines 4–6:]
Adjectives inflected like selvaggio
saggio,
colaticcio,
schimbescio,
azzurriccio,
ciuvascio,
rossiccio,
spilorcio,
malacconcio,
torbidiccio,
broncio,
gialliccio,
freddiccio,
sconcio,
pecoreccio,
diaccio,
bruciaticcio,
secchericcio,
smencio,
secchereccio,
scamoscio, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
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. See: Latin Adjectives '
silvāticus', Spanish Adjectives '
salvaje', Portuguese Adjectives '
selvagem', Catalan Adjectives '
salvatge'.
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