silvaticus

Latin

Etymology

From silva (“woods, forest”) +‎ -āticus (“pertaining to”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /silˈu̯aː.ti.kus/, [s̠ɪɫ̪ˈu̯äːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /silˈva.ti.kus/, [silˈväːt̪ikus]

Adjective

silvāticus (feminine silvātica, neuter silvāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of the woods, sylvan
2. 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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	silvāticus	silvātica	silvāticum		silvāticī	silvāticae	silvātica
genitive	silvāticī	silvāticae	silvāticī		silvāticōrum	silvāticārum	silvāticōrum
dative	silvāticō	silvāticae	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 (Tuscan)
    • → Catalan: selvàtic
    • → Portuguese: selvático
    • → Spanish: selvático
  • Venetan: selvadego
• 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:
  • Megleno-Romanian: sălbatic
  • Romanian: sălbatic, sălbatec
• 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
  • Venetan: salvega, salvadega
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: sauvage, salvage
    • French: sauvage
    • Champenois: sauvaige, sauvade
    • Norman: sauvage (Jersey)
    • → Middle English: savage, salvage, saveage, sauvage, salvage
      • English: savage
      • Scots: savage
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: salvatge
    • → Spanish: salvaje
      • → English: salvage
      • → Tagalog: salbahe
  • Old Occitan: sauvatge, salvatge
    • → Old Galician-Portuguese: salvage
    • → Sicilian: sarbaggiu
    • Occitan: sauvatge, salvatge

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “silvāticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 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.