salvaje

First attested 1335;[1] 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.

• IPA^(key): /salˈbaxe/ [salˈβ̞a.xe]
• Rhymes: -axe
• Syllabification: sal‧va‧je

salvaje m or f (masculine and feminine plural salvajes)

1. (especially of animals) wild, savage (untamed, not domesticated)

   Synonym: (especially of plants) silvestre

   Antonym: doméstico

   Sólo hay una cosa que puede calmar la bestia salvaje.

   There is only one thing that can soothe the savage beast.

2. savage, feral, uncivilized (said of a person)

salvaje m or f by sense (plural salvajes)

1. savage

• → English: salvage
• → Tagalog: salbahe

• “salvaje”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014