vild

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

• IPA^(key): /vaɪld/

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• Rhymes: -aɪld

vild (comparative more vild, superlative most vild)

1. (obsolete) vile
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:

     Ye have rooted all the Relicks out / Of that vild Race, and 'stablished my Peace.

• vildly

• “vild”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• liv'd

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

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

1. wild
2. fierce, ferocious

vild (singular definite den vilde, plural indefinite vilde)

1. (dated or derogatory) savage, barbarian

• “vild” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

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

vild f

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

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

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vild (comparative vildare, superlative vildast)

1. wild
2. not tame or domesticated

• förvilda
• vild graviditet (“freebirth”)
• vild strejk
• vilde

• vild in Svensk ordbok.