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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).

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Singular
salve

Plural
salves

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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Infinitive
to salve

Third person singular
salves

Simple past
salved

Past participle
salved

Present participle
salving

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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[edit] Etymology 2

From Latin salvare, to save.

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Infinitive
to salve

Third person singular
salves

Simple past
salved

Past participle
salved

Present participle
salving

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

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[edit] French

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salve

  1. salvo, volley of shots.

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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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Presumably from an unattested verb salveō.

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salvē!

  1. hail!, welcome!, farewell!

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

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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.