savage

savage
\ \ [13] A savage is etymologically someone who comes from the ‘woods’ – woodlands being anciently viewed as places of untamed nature, beyond the pale of civilized human society. The word comes via Old French sauvage from Vulgar Latin *salvāticus, an alteration of Latin silvāticus ‘of the woods, wild’. This was a derivative of silva ‘woods, forest’ (source of English sylvan [16]), a word of uncertain origin.
\ \ Cf.⇒ SYLVAN

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(as a forest), , , / (like an inhabitant of the woods), , , / , , , , , , , / , , , , / , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , / (colloq.),


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