salve

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 1.6 Etymology 2 1.7 Verb 1.8 References 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.3 See also 2.4 Anagrams 3 Italian 3.1 Adjective 3.2 Interjection 3.3 Noun 4 Latin 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Pronunciation 4.3 Interjection 4.3.1 Usage notes 4.3.2 Related terms 5 Spanish 5.1 Verb

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English sealf. Akin to Middle Low German salve (Danish salve), Old High German salba (German Salbe) and to Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbons).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /sælv/
• (US) IPA: /sæ(l)v/

[edit] Noun

salve (plural salves)

1. An ointment, cream or balm with soothing, healing or calming effects.
2. Any thing or action that soothes or heals.

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[edit] Verb

to salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)

1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
2. To salvage.

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• Anagrams of aelsv
• avels
• selva
• slave
• vales

[edit] Etymology 2

From Latin salvare, to save.

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to salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)

1. (obsolete) An astronomical term meaning to save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
2. (obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

   Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems (1662): He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

[edit] References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /salv/, SAMPA: /salv/

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salve

1. salvo, volley of shots.

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• salvage
• salvation

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of aelsv
• laves, lavés
• levas
• slave, Slave
• valse

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[edit] Italian

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salve pl.

1. Feminine form of salvo.

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salve!

1. hello!; hi!; hail!

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salve f.

1. Plural form of salva.

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

Presumably from an unattested verb salveō.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈsal.weː/

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salvē!

1. hail!, welcome!, farewell!

[edit] Usage notes

• This is the singular form. When greeting a group, salvēte is used.

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• salūtō
• salvēte (plural form)
• salvus

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

salve (infinitive: salvar)

1. formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of salvar.
2. first-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of salvar.
3. formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of salvar.
4. third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of salvar.