salve

• (UK) enPR: sălv, säv, IPA^(key): /sælv/, /sɑːv/
• (US) enPR: sălv, săv, IPA^(key): /sælv/, /sæv/

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

salve (plural salves)

1. an ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects
2. any remedy or action that soothes or heals

• black salve

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

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.
   • Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:

     I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."

3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
   • Spenser

     But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.

   • Milton

     What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

4. To salvage.

From Latin salvō (“to save”).

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)
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems

     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

• “salve” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

From Latin salvē.

salve

1. hail; a greeting

From the interjection salve.

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.
   • Spenser

     By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

• 'alves, Levas, Selva, Slave, Slavé, Veals, avels, evals, laves, selva, slave, vales, valse, veals

• IPA^(key): /salvə/, [ˈsalvə]

From Middle Low German salve, from Old Saxon salva, from Proto-Germanic *salbō (“salve, ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *selp- (“butter, grease”).

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

1. ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)

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

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

1. salvo
2. volley
3. burst
4. tirade

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

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

1. anoint

Borrowed from Italian salva.

• IPA^(key): /salv/

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salve f (plural salves)

1. salvo, volley of shots.
2. round

   une salve d'applaudissements

   A round of applause

• salvage
• salvation

• “salve” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• laves, lavés, levas, Slave, slave, valse, valsé

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/

salve f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective salvo.

salve!

1. (formal) hello!; hi!; hail!

   Synonym: ciao (colloquial)

2. greetings

salve f pl

1. plural of salva

• selva, slave, svela, valse

Imperative of the verb salveō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.weː/, [ˈsaɫ.weː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/

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salvē

1. hail!, welcome!, farewell!

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

• 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, 1883–1887)
• salve in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

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

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.

• “salve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

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

• “salve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Latin salvē (“hail”).

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.ve/
• Rhymes: -awvi

salve!

1. (poetic) hail! greetings.

   Synonym: saudações

salve

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of salvar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of salvar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of salvar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of salvar

From Latin salvē.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/

salve

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalbe/, [ˈsalβe]

From Latin salvē (“hail, hello”).

salve

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

salve

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.