German

Noun

Salve f ‎(genitive Salve, plural Salven)

1. salvo

Declension

English

Noun

salve ‎(plural salves)

1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. Any thing or action that soothes or heals.

Derived terms

• black salve

Translations

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)

1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
2. 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."

3. 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?

4. To salvage.

Derived terms

Translations

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).
   • 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....

3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

References

• J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

Etymology 4

From Latin salvē.

Interjection

salve

1. hail; a greeting

Etymology 5

From the interjection salve.

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.
   • Spenser

     By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

Anagrams

• avels, selva, Slavé, slave, vales

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)

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

Inflection

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

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

1. anoint

Faliscan

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wés, from *solh₂- ‎(“whole”). Related to Latin salvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.we/

Adjective

salve ‎(feminine salve)

1. healthy; well

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salv/

Noun

salve f ‎(plural salves)

1. salvo, volley of shots.
2. round

   une salve d'applaudissements

   A round of applause

See also

• salvage
• salvation

Anagrams

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

Italian

Adjective

salve

1. feminine plural of salvo

Interjection

salve!

1. hello!; hi!; hail!
2. greetings

Noun

salve f

1. plural of salva

Anagrams

• selva, slave, svela, valse

Latin

Etymology

Presumably from the verb salveō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.weː/

Interjection

salvē!

1. hail!, welcome!, 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, 1883–1887)
• salve in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin salvē ‎(“hail”).

Pronunciation

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.ve/
• Rhymes: -awvi

Interjection

salve!

1. (poetic) hail! greetings.

Synonyms

• saudações

Verb

salve

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of salvar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of salvar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of salvar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of salvar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin salve.

Interjection

salve

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

Spanish

Verb

salve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of salvar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of salvar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of salvar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of salvar.