salvo

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvoʊ/

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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”).

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
   • Eikon Basilike

     They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations.

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

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”).

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:

     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.

4. The combined cheers of a crowd.

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.

• the Salvos

• Lovas, Slavo-, ovals, sa/vol

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of salvar

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.voː/

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• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

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

1. salvo, volley, a series of shots

• Afrikaans: salvo

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

1. safe

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

salvo

1. except

   Synonym: agás

salvo (plural salvi)

1. rescue

   Synonym: salvado

2. salvation

   Synonym: salveso

From Latin salvus.[1] Cognate to French sauf.

salvo (feminine singular salva, masculine plural salvi, feminine plural salve)

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

salvo m (plural salvi)

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

salvo

1. except, but, save

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

salvo che

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

   Synonym: a meno che non

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvare

• salvare

• slavo, solva, valso

From salvus (“safe”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.woː/, [ˈsaɫ.woː]

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.

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

• 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, 1883–1887)
• salvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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, The Century Co., New York, 1911

• Rhymes: -awvu

salvo m (feminine singular salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas, comparable)

1. safe

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

salvo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of salvar

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalbo/, [ˈsalβo]

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

1. safe

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

salvo

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

salvo

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

• “salvo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.