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salve

See also: Salve and salvé

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).

Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).

Noun

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salve (countable and uncountable, plural salves)

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

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From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
    • 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 26:
      She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
  2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
  3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  4. (dated) To salvage.
    • 1942 March, “Notes and News: Repairing Blitzed Underground Cars”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
      The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.
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Etymology 3

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From Latin salvō (“to save”).

Verb

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

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

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Etymology 4

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From Latin salvē.

Interjection

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salve

  1. Hail; a greeting.

Etymology 5

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From the interjection salve.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

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Danish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /salvə/, [ˈsalvə]

Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German salve, from Old Saxon salva, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu.

Noun

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salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

  1. ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)
Inflection
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Declension of salve
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative salve salven salver salverne
genitive salves salvens salvers salvernes

Etymology 2

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From French salve, from Latin salvē (“hail!, welcome!, farewell!”).

Noun

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salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

  1. salvo
  2. volley
  3. burst
  4. tirade
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Declension of salve
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative salve salven salver salverne
genitive salves salvens salvers salvernes

Etymology 3

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From Middle Low German salven, from Old Saxon salbon, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn (“to anoint”).

Verb

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salve (imperative salv, infinitive at salve, present tense salver, past tense salvede, perfect tense er/har salvet)

  1. anoint

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian salva.

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Noun

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salve f (plural salves)

  1. salvo, volley of shots
  2. round
    une salve d’applaudissements
    A round of applause

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Galician

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Verb

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salve

  1. inflection of salvar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin salvē.

Interjection

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salve

  1. (formal) hello!; hi!; hail!
    Synonym: ciao (colloquial)
  2. greetings
Further reading
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  • salve1 in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

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salve

  1. feminine plural of salvo

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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salve f

  1. plural of salva

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  1. ^ Salve Regina in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latin

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Etymology

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Imperative of the verb salveō.

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Interjection

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salvē

  1. hail!, hello!, welcome!
  2. farewell!

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

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  • Italian: salve
  • Portuguese: salve
  • Romanian: salve
  • Spanish: salve

References

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  • “salve”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “salve”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • salve 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)
  • “salve”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From the oblique forms of Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsalv(ə)/, /salf/

Noun

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salve (plural salves)

  1. A salve; a curative ointment.
  2. A remedy, cure, or deliverance.
  3. Any ointment or balm.
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Etymology 2

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Adjective

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salve

  1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

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salve

  1. Alternative form of sauf

Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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salve

  1. Alternative form of self

Etymology 4

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Verb

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salve

  1. Alternative form of salven

Etymology 5

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Verb

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salve

  1. Alternative form of saven

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German salve (sense 1), and Latin salve (sense 2).

Noun

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salve f or m (definite singular salva or salven, indefinite plural salver, definite plural salvene)

  1. ointment, salve
  2. salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Low German salve.

Noun

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salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)

  1. ointment, salve

Verb

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salve (present tense salvar, past tense salva, past participle salva, passive infinitive salvast, present participle salvande, imperative salve/salv)

  1. (transitive) to anoint

Etymology 2

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From Latin salve.

Noun

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salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)

  1. salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.vi/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ve/ [ˈsaʊ̯.ve]
 

Etymology 1

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From Latin salvē (“hail”).

Interjection

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salve!

  1. (poetic) hail!
    Synonym: saudações
  2. (colloquial) greetings, hi
    Synonyms: saudações, olá, fala aí

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salve m (plural salves)

  1. (colloquial) shout out
    • 2020 September 5, SECOM, “Um salve à luta das mulheres indígenas no mundo todo”, in CONAFER‎[1], Brasília, DF, archived from the original on 2023-09-03:
      Por isso, um salve a todas as guerreiras, sábias, anciãs, jovens, caciques, pajés, mulheres indígenas que resistem e defendem o bem-estar do seu povo.
      So, a shout out to all warrior, wise, old, young, chief, shaman, indigenous women that resist and defend their people's well-being.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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salve

  1. inflection of salvar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin salvē.

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salve

  1. welcome!, greetings!, cheerio!
  2. so long!, bye-bye!

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsalbe/ [ˈsal.β̞e]
  • Rhymes: -albe
  • Syllabification: sal‧ve

Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Latin salvē (“hail, hello”).

Interjection

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salve

  1. (archaic) hello
  2. (poetic) hail

Etymology 2

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Verb

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salve

  1. inflection of salvar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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