From Middle English savage, from Old French sauvage, salvage (“wild, savage, untamed”), from Late Latin salvaticus, alteration of Latin silvaticus (“wild”; literally, “of the woods”), from silva (“forest”, “grove”).
- Wild; not cultivated or tamed.
- Barbaric; not civilized.
- Fierce and ferocious.
- Brutal, vicious or merciless.
- Nude; naked, bare, indecent, immodest.