vild

English

Etymology

As if the past participle of a verb *to vile. See vile (adjective).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vaɪld/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪld

Adjective

vild (comparative more vild, superlative most vild)

  1. (obsolete) vile
  • vildly

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for chapter VILD, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse villr (“wild”) and Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz, cognate with English wild, German wild, Dutch wild.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʋilˀ]

Adjective

vild (neuter vildt, plural and definite singular attributive vilde, comparative vildere, superlative (predicative) vildest, superlative (attributive) vildeste)

  1. wild
  2. fierce, ferocious

Inflection
Inflection of vild
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular vild vildere vildest2
Indefinite neuter singular vildt vildere vildest2
Plural vilde vildere vildest2
Definite attributive1 vilde vildere vildeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Noun

vild (singular definite den vilde, plural indefinite vilde)

  1. (dated or derogatory) savage, barbarian

Declension
Declension of vild
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vild den vilde vilde de vilde
genitive vilds den vildes vildes de vildes

Derived terms
  • ellevild
  • halvvild
  • husvild
  • rådvild
  • vildbasse
  • vilddyr
  • vildfarelse
  • vildfaren
  • vildfugl
  • vildkat
  • vildmand
  • vildmark
  • vildskab
  • vildsvin

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiliþō, from *wiljaz; see vili.

Pronunciation
  • (12th Century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈwild/

Noun

vild f

  1. will, liking, benevolence
  2. favour, grace
  3. reputation

Descendants
  • Icelandic: vild
  • Old Swedish: vild, wild, wäldh

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse villr (“wild”) and Old Saxon wildi, from Proto-Germanic *wilþijaz.

Pronunciation
  • audio(file)

Adjective

vild (comparative vildare, superlative vildast)

  1. wild
  2. not tame or domesticated

Declension
Inflection of vild
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular vild vildare vildast
Neuter singular vilt vildare vildast
Plural vilda vildare vildast
Masculine plural3 vilde vildare vildast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 vilde vildare vildaste
All vilda vildare vildaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Further reading
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