salvage
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsælvɪdʒ/
Etymology 1
From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”) with the English suffix -age.
Noun
salvage (countable and uncountable, plural salvages)
- The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
- The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
- The compensation paid to the rescuers.
- The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
- (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.
- salvage cars auction
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Verb
salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvaging, simple past and past participle salvaged)
- (transitive) Of property, people or situations at risk, to rescue.
- (transitive) Of discarded goods, to put to use.
- (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2
Alternative forms.
Etymology 3
From Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (““wild"; literally, "of the woods"”), from silva (“forest", "grove”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).[1][2]
Verb
salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvageing, simple past and past participle salvageed)
References
- Ocampo, Ambeth R. (2011 April 06), “History in words”, in (Please provide the title of the work), Philippine Daily Inquirer
- Lacaba (1995 August 3), “Salvage”, in Manila Times
- “salvage, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2015.
Further reading
- salvage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- salvage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- salvage at OneLook Dictionary Search