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

• liv'd

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋilˀ]

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

1. wild
2. fierce, ferocious

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.

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

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

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

• vild in Svensk ordbok.