salve
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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).
Noun
salve (plural salves)
Derived terms
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Old English sealfian, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).
Verb
salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
- (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[.]
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- 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."
- Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:
- 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?
- Spenser
- To salvage.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)
- (obsolete, astronomy) to save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies)
- (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....
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems
- (obsolete) to explain away; to mitigate; to excuse
References
- “salve” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
Etymology 5
From the interjection salve.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salvə/, [ˈsalvə]
Etymology 1
From Middle Low German salve, from Old Saxon salva, from Proto-Germanic *salbō (“salve, ointment”), from Proto-Indo-European *selp- (“butter, grease”).
Noun
salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)
- ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)
Inflection
Inflection
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German salven, from Old Saxon salbon, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną (“to anoint”).
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /salv/
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Noun
salve f (plural salves)
Further reading
- “salve” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsal.ve/
Latin
Etymology
Imperative of the verb salveō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.weː/, [ˈsaɫ.weː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.ve/
Audio (Classical) (file)
Usage notes
- This is the singular form. When greeting a group, salvēte is used.
References
- 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
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Middle Low German salve (sense 1), and Latin salve (sense 2)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Middle Low German salve (sense 1), and Latin salve (sense 2)
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈsaw.ve/
- Rhymes: -awvi
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsal.ve/
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalbe/, [ˈsalβe]
Verb
salve