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单词 savagine
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savagineadj.n.

Forms: late Middle English sauagyn, late Middle English sauagyne, late Middle English savagyne.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sauvagin.
Etymology: < Middle French sauvagin (adjective) wild, savage (1422; 1416 in bestes sauvaizines wild animals, savage beasts) < sauvage savage adj. + -in (see -ine suffix1). Compare Middle French sauvagine (feminine noun) wild animals (1121–34 in Old French as salvagine), waterfowl (c1245), Catalan salvatgí (adjective; feminine salvatgina) (of animals) wild (end of the 15th cent.; now also ‘brutal, savage’), Spanish salvajino (adjective) wild, woodland (15th cent. as salvagino), salvajina (feminine noun) wild animal (c1330), Portuguese selvagino (adjective) (of animals) wild (a1608), Italian selvaggina (feminine noun) game (1598 in Florio; beginning of the 14th cent. as †salvaggina).
Obsolete.
A. adj.
Wild, savage.Only recorded in the writing of John Lydgate.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [adjective]
wilda1300
bestiala1398
wilderna1400
savagine?a1439
barbaric1490
rudea1530
barbar1535
barbarous1538
pagan1550
uncivil1553
Scythical1559
raw?1573
savaged1583
incivil1586
savage1589
barbarian1591
uncivilized1607
negerous1609
mountainous1613
ruvid1632
ruvidous1632
barbarious1633
incivilizeda1645
alabandical1656
inhumanea1680
tramontane1740
semi-barbarous1798
irreclaimed1814
semi-savage1833
semiferine1854
warrigal1855
sloven1856
semi-barbaric1864
pre-civilized1876
wild and woolly1884
jungle1908
medieval1917
jungli1920
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 2598 Off the forest the beestis sauagyne.
c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Testament (Harl. 2255) in J. O. Halliwell Select. Minor Poems (1840) 246 Savagyne voyd of al resoun.
c1475 (a1449) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 122 Holy seynt Gyle, wich in þe woodis wylde, And among bestis tame and sauagyne, Myd sharpe busshes dist þi paleis bylde.
B. n.
A wild or savage person.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person
wild mana1400
woodwose?a1400
savaginec1450
woodward1488
savagea1544
woodman1601
barbarian1604
woodist1613
wilding1621
brutigenist1631
catamountaina1640
Caliban1678
semi-barbarian1692
Hottentot1710
semi-savage1807
pagan1879
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) (1989) l. 4042 Þai..Sloȝe of þa sauagyns a sowme out of nombre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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