salve

See also: Salve and salvé

English

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 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Ido: ^{(please verify)} unguento (io), ^{(please verify)} pomado (io)

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.

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

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

Anagrams

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

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/

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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/

• Audio

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• 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

Adjective

salve f pl

1. feminine plural of salvo

Etymology 3

Noun

salve f pl

1. plural of salva

Anagrams

• Selva, selva, slave, svela, valse

Latin

Etymology

Imperative of the verb salveō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) 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

• salvus
• salvēte (plural form)
• salūtō

 

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

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

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^[1], 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014