salvo

See also: Salvo, salvó, and salvò

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvəʊ/
• enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvoʊ/

• Audio (US):

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Etymology 1

From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
   • (Can we date this quote by Eikon Basilike and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.

Derived terms

• A salvo clause in legal documents or audit reports details reservations or limitations.

Translations

An exception

• Dutch: salvo (nl)
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Etymology 2

A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
3. (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.

   • 2019 October 6, Tim Shipman and Caroline Wheeler, “'Sack me if you dare,' Johnson will tell Queen”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,178, page 1:

     Together, Johnson's plans mean that the clashes in parliament and the Supreme Court may be only the opening salvos in what promises to be the biggest constitutional storm in centuries.

4. The combined cheers of a crowd.

Translations

concentrated fire from pieces of artillery

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齊射／齐射 (zh) (qíshè), 齐射 (zh) (qíshè)

• Dutch: salvo (nl) n
• Finnish: yhteislaukaus (fi), salvo (fi)
• French: salve (fr) f
• Georgian: ზალპი (zalṗi)
• German: Salve (de) f
• Greek: ομοβροντία (el) f (omovrontía)
• Italian: salva (it) f
• Maori: waiwaipū, waipū
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: salwa (pl)
• Portuguese: salva (pt) f
• Romanian: salvă (ro) f
• Russian: залп (ru) m (zalp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пло̀тӯн m

  Roman: plòtūn (sh) m

• Spanish: salva (es) f, andanada f

any volley, as in an argument or debate

• Dutch: schot voor de boeg n
• Finnish: tulitus (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Salve (de) f

salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons

• Dutch: eresalvo n, saluutschoten (nl) pl
• Finnish: yhteislaukaus (fi)
• German: Salve (de) f
• Italian: salva (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: залп (ru) m (zalp)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пло̀тӯн m

  Roman: plòtūn (sh) m

Verb

salvo (third-person singular simple present salvos, present participle salvoing, simple past and past participle salvoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge weapons in a salvo.

See also

• the Salvos

Anagrams

• Lovas, Slavo-, ovals, sa/vol

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Catalan

Verb

salvo

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French salve, from Italian salva, from Latin salvē (greeting).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.voː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Noun

salvo n (plural salvo's, diminutive salvootje n)

1. salvo, volley, a series of shots

Descendants

• Afrikaans: salvo

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Galician

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

1. safe

Derived terms

• san e salvo m, sa e salva f
• a salvo

Preposition

salvo

1. except

   Synonym: agás

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalvo/

Noun

salvo (plural salvi)

1. rescue

   Synonym: salvado

2. salvation

   Synonym: salveso

Derived terms

• salvar
• salvita

 

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin salvus. Cognate to French sauf.

Adjective

1. safe, out of danger, saved, secure from

   Synonyms: salvato, fuori pericolo, al sicuro da

2. safe, whole, intact, undamaged

   Synonyms: intatto, indenne, non danneggiato

Noun

salvo m (plural salvi)

1. (preceded by in) safe, in a safe place, to safety

Preposition

salvo

1. except, but, save

   Synonyms: eccetto, tranne, eccetto, ad eccezione di, fatto salvo

Conjunction

salvo che

1. except that; save that, unless, if... not

   Synonym: a meno che non

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvare

Related terms

• salvare

Anagrams

• salvò, slavo, solva, valso

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Latin

Etymology

From salvus (“safe”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vo/, [ˈsälvo]

Verb

salvō (present infinitive salvāre, perfect active salvāvī, supine salvātum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) I save (make safe or healthy)
   • Augustinus

     Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare.

     For God loves not to condemn but to save.

Usage notes

This term is not found in Classical Latin, which uses servo instead.

Conjugation

Conjugation of salvō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	salvō	salvās	salvat	salvāmus	salvātis	salvant
	imperfect	salvābam	salvābās	salvābat	salvābāmus	salvābātis	salvābant
	future	salvābō	salvābis	salvābit	salvābimus	salvābitis	salvābunt
	perfect	salvāvī	salvāvistī	salvāvit	salvāvimus	salvāvistis	salvāvērunt, salvāvēre
	pluperfect	salvāveram	salvāverās	salvāverat	salvāverāmus	salvāverātis	salvāverant
	future perfect	salvāverō	salvāveris	salvāverit	salvāverimus	salvāveritis	salvāverint
passive	present	salvor	salvāris, salvāre	salvātur	salvāmur	salvāminī	salvantur
	imperfect	salvābar	salvābāris, salvābāre	salvābātur	salvābāmur	salvābāminī	salvābantur
	future	salvābor	salvāberis, salvābere	salvābitur	salvābimur	salvābiminī	salvābuntur
	perfect	salvātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	salvātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	salvātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	salvem	salvēs	salvet	salvēmus	salvētis	salvent
	imperfect	salvārem	salvārēs	salvāret	salvārēmus	salvārētis	salvārent
	perfect	salvāverim	salvāverīs	salvāverit	salvāverīmus	salvāverītis	salvāverint
	pluperfect	salvāvissem	salvāvissēs	salvāvisset	salvāvissēmus	salvāvissētis	salvāvissent
passive	present	salver	salvēris, salvēre	salvētur	salvēmur	salvēminī	salventur
	imperfect	salvārer	salvārēris, salvārēre	salvārētur	salvārēmur	salvārēminī	salvārentur
	perfect	salvātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	salvātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	salvā	—	—	salvāte	—
	future	—	salvātō	salvātō	—	salvātōte	salvantō
passive	present	—	salvāre	—	—	salvāminī	—
	future	—	salvātor	salvātor	—	—	salvantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		salvāre	salvāvisse	salvātūrum esse	salvārī	salvātum esse	salvātum īrī
participles		salvāns	—	salvātūrus	—	salvātus	salvandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		salvandī	salvandō	salvandum	salvandō	salvātum	salvātū

Descendants

• Albanian: shëlboj
• Catalan: salvar
• Old French: sauver
  • French: sauver
  • → Middle English: saven, sauven
    • English: save
• French: sauver
• Friulian: salvâ
• Istriot: salvà
• Italian: salvare
• Occitan: salvar
• Portuguese: salvar
• Romanian: salva
• Romansch: salvar, salver
• Sardinian: salvai, salvare, sarbai, sarbare, sarvai, sarvare
• Sicilian: sarvari, sarbari
• Spanish: salvar
• Venetian: salvar
• → English: salve

References

• “salvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salvo 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)
• salvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • without violating, neglecting one's duty: salvo officio (Off. 3. 1. 4)
    
  • to greet a person: aliquem salvere iubere (Att. 4. 14)
    
• “save”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -awvu

Adjective

1. safe

Derived terms

• são e salvo m, sã e salva f
• a salvo

Verb

salvo

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalbo/ [ˈsal.β̞o]

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

1. safe

Derived terms

• sano y salvo m, sana y salva f
• a salvo

Adverb

salvo

1. except, apart from; cf. prepositional use of English cognate save

Related terms

• a salvo
• salvación f
• salvado m
• salvamiento m
• salvar
• salva f
• sano y salvo

 

Verb

salvo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of salvar.

References

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