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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋilˀ]

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

vild (neuter vildt, plural and definite singular attributive vilde)

1. wild
2. fierce, ferocious

vild (singular definite den vilde, plural indefinite vilde)

1. (dated or derogatory) savage, barbarian

From Old Danish wild, from Old Norse vild, from Proto-Germanic *wiliþō. Compare Swedish väld.

vild c (singular definite vilden, not used in plural form)

1. (obsolete) desire, will
2. (law, obsolete) partiality, bias

• vildig

• “vild” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “vild” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)