salve

See also: Salve and salvé

English

 Salve (disambiguation) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːv, -ælv, -æv

Etymology 1

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

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.

Derived terms

• black salve
• lip salve
• salve bug

Translations

ointment, cream or balm

Arabic: مَرْهَم m (marham), زَبْدَة f (zabda), بَلْسَم m (balsam) Catalan: ungüent m, pomada (ca) f, bàlsam (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 藥膏 / 药膏 (zh) (yàogāo), 軟膏 / 软膏 (zh) (ruǎngāo) Cornish: eli Dutch: zalf (nl) m or f Esperanto: ungvento Finnish: voide (fi), salva (fi), balsami (fi) French: onguent (fr) m, pommade (fr) f, baume (fr) m German: Salbe (de) f, Balsam (de) m Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 f (salbōns) Greek: αλοιφή (el) f (aloifí) Hebrew: מִשְׁחָה (he) (mishkha), צֳרִי (he) f (tsori) Indonesian: salep (id), balsem (id) Ingrian: voije, maazi Irish: ungadh m Italian: unguento (it) m, balsamo (it) m, pomata (it) f Japanese: 軟膏 (ja) (なんこう, nankō) Kannada: ಹಚ್ಚುಮದ್ದು (kn) (haccumaddu) Korean: 연고 (yeon'go) Latvian: ziede f, svaide f Luxembourgish: Sallef f Macedonian: мелем (mk) m (melem) Maori: rongoā maene Norwegian: Bokmål: salve (no) m or f Nynorsk: salve m or f Ottoman Turkish: مرهم (merhem) Plautdietsch: Saulw f Portuguese: pomada (pt) f Russian: бальза́м (ru) m (balʹzám), мазь (ru) f (mazʹ) Spanish: ungüento (es) m, pomada (es) f, bálsamo (es) m Tocharian B: laupe, ṣalype Turkish: merhem (tr) Ukrainian: бальза́м (uk) m (balʹzám), мазь f (mazʹ) Volapük: nugvet (vo) Welsh: eli (cy) m Yiddish: זאַלב m (zalb)

something that soothes or heals

Finnish: balsami (fi) French: baume (fr) m Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo) Italian: balsamo (it) m Maori: rongoā maene

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Etymology 2

From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, 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)

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.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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

3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21:

     But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.

   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

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

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.

Derived terms

• salvability
• salvable
• salvage
• salvee
• salver
• salvor
• weapon-salve

Translations

to calm or assuage

Finnish: rauhoittaa (fi) Greek: ελαφρύνω (el) (elafrýno) Italian: guarire (it), curare (it)

to salvage

Finnish: pelastaa (fi) Italian: salvare (it)

Etymology 3

From Latin salvō (“to save”).

Verb

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).
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury, transl., Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief 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.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “salve”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Etymology 4

From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.

Interjection

salve

1. Hail; a greeting.

Verb

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.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:

     By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]

Anagrams

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salvə/, [ˈsalvə]

Etymology 1

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

Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

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

Inflection

Declension of salve

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	salve	salven	salver	salverne
genitive	salves	salvens	salvers	salvernes

Etymology 2

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

Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

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

Inflection

Declension of salve

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	salve	salven	salver	salverne
genitive	salves	salvens	salvers	salvernes

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

1. anoint

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salv/

• Audio:

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Noun

salve f (plural salves)

1. salvo, volley of shots
2. round

   une salve d’applaudissements

   A round of applause

See also

• salvage
• salvation

Further reading

• “salve”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

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

Galician

Verb

salve

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/^[1]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -alve
• Hyphenation: sàl‧ve

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin salvē.

Interjection

salve

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

   Synonym: ciao (colloquial)

2. greetings

Further reading

• salve¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

salve

1. feminine plural of salvo

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

salve f

1. plural of salva

References

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

Anagrams

• Selva, selva, slave, svela, valse

Latin

Etymology

Imperative of the verb salveō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.u̯eː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/, [ˈsälve]

Interjection

salvē

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

Usage notes

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

Related terms

• salūtō
• salvēte (plural form)
• salvus

Descendants

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

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 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

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• salf, salfe, salff, salffe, salwe, selve
• scealfe, sealfe, sealve (Early Middle English)
• sallfe (Ormulum)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalv(ə)/, /salf/

Noun

salve (plural salves)

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

Related terms

• salven

Descendants

• English: salve
• Scots: saw

References

• “salve, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Adjective

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

Etymology 3

Pronoun

salve

1. Alternative form of self

Etymology 4

Verb

salve

1. Alternative form of salven

Etymology 5

Verb

salve

1. Alternative form of saven

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:

salver

Wikipedia ^no

Etymology

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

Noun

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.

References

• “salve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:

salve

Wikipedia ⁿⁿ

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German salve.

Noun

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

1. ointment, salve

Verb

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

From Latin salve.

Noun

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.

References

• “salve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Salve, evlas, levas, salve, savle, svale, svela, valse, vasle, vesal, vesla

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

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

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

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.vɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.vɨ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.bɨ/ [ˈsaɫ.βɨ]

• Rhymes: -alvɨ, -awvi
• Hyphenation: sal‧ve

Etymology 1

From Latin salvē (“hail”).

Interjection

salve!

1. (poetic) hail!

   Synonym: saudações

2. (colloquial) greetings, hi

   Synonyms: saudações, olá, fala aí

Noun

salve m (plural salves)

1. (colloquial) shout out
   • 2020 September 5, SECOM, “Um salve à luta das mulheres indígenas no mundo todo”, in CONAFER‎, 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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

salve

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin salvē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ve/

Interjection

salve

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Interjection

salve

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

Etymology 2

Verb

salve

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

Further reading

• “salve”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10