fauve
French
adj
Definitions
- tawny
- (rare) savage, fierce having the ferocity of a wild animal
- (rare) dangerous, wild
- (arts) fauvist
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French fauve inherited from Old French falve inherited from Latin falvus derived from Frankish *falu derived from Proto-Germanic *falwaz (fallow, grey, pale).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*falwaz
Gloss
fallow, grey, pale
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- fallow English
- fallowchat English
- fallower English
- fallowfinch English
- fallowist English
- fallowness English
- fauvette English
- fauvism English
- twifallow English
- vaaljapie English
- falvus Latin
- falbo Italian
- fauvismo Italian
- Veluwe Dutch, Flemish
- vaal Dutch, Flemish
- fauvement French
- fauvette French
- fauvisme French
- fauvismo Spanish, Castilian
- *pel- Proto-Indo-European
- *polHwós Proto-Indo-European
- *polʷos Proto-Indo-European
- *awjō Proto-Germanic
- *falwaz Proto-Germanic
- *falwiskǭ Proto-Germanic
- フォーヴィスム Japanese
- fowizm Polish
- fealu Old English
- falow Middle English
- fǫlr Old Norse
- falve Old French
- fauvisme Catalan, Valencian
- vāle Middle Dutch
- falo Old High German
- vaal Afrikaans
- fauve Middle French
- *falo Old Dutch
- vāl Middle Low German
- *falu Frankish
- falb Old Occitan