silvaticus
Latin
Etymology
From silva (“woods, forest”) + -āticus (“pertaining to”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /silˈu̯aː.ti.kus/, [s̠ɪɫ̪ˈu̯äːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /silˈva.ti.kus/, [silˈväːt̪ikus]
Adjective
silvāticus (feminine silvātica, neuter silvāticum); first/second-declension adjective
- of the woods, sylvan
- wild (not domesticated or farmed)
- Synonyms: trux, ferōx, atrōx, violēns, immānis, efferus, ferus, crūdēlis, barbaricus, ācer
- Antonyms: mītis, misericors, tranquillus, placidus, quietus, clemens
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | silvāticus | silvātica | silvāticum | silvāticī | silvāticae | silvātica | |
Genitive | silvāticī | silvāticae | silvāticī | silvāticōrum | silvāticārum | silvāticōrum | |
Dative | silvāticō | silvāticō | silvāticīs | ||||
Accusative | silvāticum | silvāticam | silvāticum | silvāticōs | silvāticās | silvātica | |
Ablative | silvāticō | silvāticā | silvāticō | silvāticīs | |||
Vocative | silvātice | silvātica | silvāticum | silvāticī | silvāticae | silvātica |
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: selbatic (archaic)
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: selvatico, salvatico
- → Catalan: selvàtic
- → Portuguese: selvático
- → Spanish: selvático
- Venetian: selvadego
- Italian: selvatico, salvatico
- North Italian:
- Romansch: selvadi
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: selvatge
- Old Occitan: selvatge
- → Italian: selvaggio
- → Portuguese: selvagem
- Borrowings:
- → Portuguese: silvático
- → Spanish: silvático
- From the variant salvaticus
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: sălbatic
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: salvatico
- Tuscan: salváddəgə (Gombitelli)
- North Italian:
- Emilian: salvadg
- Friulian: salvadi
- Ligurian: salvaigo
- Lombard: salbego (Old Pavese)
- Piedmontese: sarvai, servai, salvaic
- Romagnol: salbedg
- Romansch: sulvedi, salvadi
- Venetian: salvega, salvadega
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: sauvage, salvage
- French: sauvage
- Norman: sauvage (Jersey)
- → Middle English: savage, salvage, saveage, sauvage, salvage
- English: savage
- Scots: savage
- Old French: sauvage, salvage
- Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: salvatge
- → Spanish: salvaje
- → English: salvage
- → Tagalog: salbahe
- → Spanish: salvaje
- Old Occitan: sauvatge, salvatge
- → Old Portuguese: salvage
- → Sicilian: sarbaggiu
- Occitan: sauvatge, salvatge
- Catalan: salvatge
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “silvāticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 616
Further reading
- “silvaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- silvaticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- silvaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette