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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):(file)
  • 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).

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.
    • 2025 April 30, “Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 1 May 2025:
      [Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report
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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.
  3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
  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.
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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).
  3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

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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.

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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)
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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
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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
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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salva.

Pronunciation

Noun

salve f (plural salves)

  1. salvo, volley of shots
  2. round
    une salve d’applaudissements
    A round of applause

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Galician

Verb

salve

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

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