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Where does “sauvagerie” come from?

sauvagerie (French) comes from French sauvage, from Old French sauvage, from Vulgar Latin salvaticus, from Latin silvāticus, from Latin -aticus, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

sauvagerie (French): savagery

Definitions

  1. savagery

Ancestry of “sauvagerie”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsauvagewild, untamed; Amerindian; an Amerindian language
2Old Frenchsauvagewild; untamed
3Vulgar Latinsalvaticus—
4Latinsilvāticus—
5Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
6Latin-ātus—
7Proto-Italic-ātos—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
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