ἄγριος
Etym. ἀγρός
"living in the fields", Lat. agrestis:
I. of animals, "wild, savage", αἴξ, σῦς Il.; ἵπποι, ὄνοι Hdt., etc.; of men, id=Hdt.; of "a countryman", as opp. to a citizen, Mosch.
2. of trees, "wild", Hdt., etc.; μητρὸς ἀγρίας ἄπο made from the "wild" vine, Aesch.; ἄγρ. ἔλαιον, Soph.
3. of countries, "wild, uncultivated", Plat.
II. of men and animals, "having qualities incident to a wild state":
1. in moral sense, "savage, fierce", Lat. ferus, ferox, Hom., etc.
2. "wild, brutal, coarse, boorish, rude", Hom., etc.; ἀγριώτατα ἤθεα Hdt.; ἐς τὸ ἀγριώτερον "to harsher measures", Thuc.
3. of things and circumstances, "cruel, harsh", Aesch., etc.; νὺξ ἀγριωτέρη "more wild, stormy", Hdt.; ἀγρ. νόσος "a malignant disease", Soph.
III. adv. -ίως, "savagely", Aesch., etc.: also ἄγρια as neut. pl., Hes., Mosch.