silvaticus

From silva (“woods, forest”) +‎ -āticus (“pertaining to”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /silˈu̯aː.ti.kus/, [s̠ɪɫ̪ˈu̯äːt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /silˈva.ti.kus/, [silˈväːt̪ikus]

silvāticus (feminine silvātica, neuter silvāticum); first/second-declension adjective

1. of the woods, sylvan
2. wild (not domesticated or farmed)

   Synonyms: trux, ferōx, atrōx, violēns, immānis, efferus, ferus, crūdēlis, barbaricus, ācer

   Antonyms: mītis, misericors, tranquillus, placidus, quietus, clemens

First/second-declension adjective.

From the variant salvaticus

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “silvāticus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 616

• “silvaticus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• silvaticus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• silvaticus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.