sauf
EnglishEdit
PrepositionEdit
sauf
- Obsolete form of save.
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin salvus.[1] Cognate to Italian salvo and Spanish salvo.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
sauf (feminine singular sauve, masculine plural saufs, feminine plural sauves)
- safe (free from harm)
Related termsEdit
PrepositionEdit
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Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Picoche, Jacqueline; Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 2009
Further readingEdit
- “sauf” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Old French sauf, from Latin salvus, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
sauf
- Not having experienced harm, damage, or ill effect:
- Free from injury or wounding; unaffected by or safe from injury.
- Untarnished, undamaged, whole; well-kept
- Safe, having security or protection:
- Having concern for, with care or respectfulness towards.
- (rare) Guaranteed, ensured, effected.
- (rare) Well-meaning, kind, having good intentions.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “sauf, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
PrepositionEdit
sauf
- But, except (for), other than, disregarding, save.
DescendantsEdit
- English: save
ReferencesEdit
- “sauf, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
ConjunctionEdit
sauf
- But, rather, on the contrary.
- Although, but, nevertheless, however.
ReferencesEdit
- “sauf, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
AdverbEdit
sauf
- In a safe or secure manner; safely.
ReferencesEdit
- “sauf, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin salvus (“safe, well, unharmed, sound, saved, alive”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”).
AdjectiveEdit
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