salvo

See also: Salvo, salvó, and salvò

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvəʊ/
(General American) enPR: sălʹvō, IPA^(key): /ˈsælvoʊ/
Audio (US) (file)

Etymology 1

From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
- 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike
  They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.

Derived terms

A salvo clause in legal documents or audit reports details reservations or limitations.

Translations

An exception

Dutch: salvo (nl)

Etymology 2

A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
(by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
- 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:
  It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.
- 2019 October 6, Tim Shipman and Caroline Wheeler, “'Sack me if you dare,' Johnson will tell Queen”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,178, page 1:
  Together, Johnson's plans mean that the clashes in parliament and the Supreme Court may be only the opening salvos in what promises to be the biggest constitutional storm in centuries.
The combined cheers of a crowd.

Translations

concentrated fire from pieces of artillery

Azerbaijani: yaylım
Belarusian: залп m (zalp)
Bulgarian: залп (bg) m (zalp)
Catalan: salva (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 齊射／齐射 (zh) (qíshè)
Czech: salva f
Danish: salve (da) c
Dutch: salvo (nl) n
Finnish: yhteislaukaus (fi), salvo (fi)
French: salve (fr) f
Georgian: ზალპი (zalṗi)
German: Salve (de) f
Greek: ομοβροντία (el) f (omovrontía)
Italian: salva (it) f
Japanese: 斉射 (せいしゃ, seisha)
Kazakh: дүркін (dürkın)
Korean: 일제 사격(一齊射擊) (ilje sagyeok)
Latvian: zalve f
Lithuanian: salvė f
Macedonian: плотун m (plotun), салва f (salva), рафал m (rafal)
Maori: waiwaipū, waipū
Polish: salwa (pl)
Portuguese: salva (pt) f
Romanian: salvă (ro) f
Russian: залп (ru) m (zalp)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пло̀тӯн m, са̑лва f
Roman: plòtūn (sh) m, sȃlva (sh) f
Slovak: salva f
Slovene: salva f
Spanish: salva (es) f, andanada (es) f
Swedish: salva (sv) c
Ukrainian: залп m (zalp)

any volley, as in an argument or debate

Dutch: schot voor de boeg n
Finnish: tulitus (fi)
German: Salve (de) f

salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons

Catalan: salva (ca) f
Dutch: eresalvo n, saluutschoten (nl) pl
Finnish: yhteislaukaus (fi)
German: Salve (de) f
Italian: salva (it) f
Romanian: salvă (ro) f
Russian: залп (ru) m (zalp)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пло̀тӯн m
Roman: plòtūn (sh) m

Verb

salvo (third-person singular simple present salvos, present participle salvoing, simple past and past participle salvoed)

(transitive, intransitive) To discharge weapons in a salvo.

Anagrams

Lovas, Slavo-, ovals, sa/vol

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin salvus. Compare Catalan salv.

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salves)

(archaic) safe, secure
- 1320–1330, Llibre del Consolat de Mar, CCLXIII
  Quant la roba serà en terra en loch salvo...
  When the goods will be on land in a secure location...

Verb

salvo

first-person singular present indicative form of salvar

References

“salvo” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French salve, from Italian salva, from Latin salvē (greeting).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.voː/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Noun

salvo n (plural salvo's, diminutive salvootje n)

salvo, volley, a series of shots

Descendants

Afrikaans: salvo

Galician

Adjective

salvo m (feminine singular salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

safe

Derived terms

san e salvo m, sa e salva f
a salvo

Preposition

salvo

except
Synonym: agás

Ido

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsalvo/

Noun

salvo (plural salvi)

rescue
Synonym: salvado
salvation
Synonym: salveso

Derived terms

salvar
salvita

Italian

Etymology

From Latin salvus.[1] Cognate to French sauf.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vo/
Rhymes: -alvo
Hyphenation: sàl‧vo

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvi, feminine plural salve)

safe, out of danger, saved, secure from
Synonyms: salvato, fuori pericolo, al sicuro da
safe, whole, intact, undamaged
Synonyms: intatto, indenne, non danneggiato

Preposition

salvo

except, but, save
Synonyms: eccetto, tranne, eccetto, ad eccezione di, fatto salvo

Conjunction

salvo che

except that; save that, unless, if... not
Synonym: a meno che non

Verb

salvo

first-person singular present indicative of salvare

Related terms

salvare

References

Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Anagrams

slavo, solva, svola, valso

Latin

Etymology

From salvus +‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯oː]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vo/, [ˈsälvo]

Verb

salvō (present infinitive salvāre, perfect active salvāvī, supine salvātum); first conjugation

(Late Latin) I save (make safe or healthy)
Synonyms: tūtor, vindicō, cū̆stōdiō, sospitō, teneō, adimō, prōtegō, tegō, dēfendō, tueor, sustineō, ēripiō, arceō, servō
- a. 430, Augustinus, Sermo XVII
  Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare.
  For God loves not to condemn but to save.

Usage notes

This term is not found in Classical Latin, which uses servo instead.

Conjugation

Conjugation of salvō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
indicative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	salvō	salvās	salvat	salvāmus	salvātis	salvant
	imperfect	salvābam	salvābās	salvābat	salvābāmus	salvābātis	salvābant
	future	salvābō	salvābis	salvābit	salvābimus	salvābitis	salvābunt
	perfect	salvāvī	salvāvistī	salvāvit	salvāvimus	salvāvistis	salvāvērunt, salvāvēre
	pluperfect	salvāveram	salvāverās	salvāverat	salvāverāmus	salvāverātis	salvāverant
	future perfect	salvāverō	salvāveris	salvāverit	salvāverimus	salvāveritis	salvāverint
passive	present	salvor	salvāris, salvāre	salvātur	salvāmur	salvāminī	salvantur
	imperfect	salvābar	salvābāris, salvābāre	salvābātur	salvābāmur	salvābāminī	salvābantur
	future	salvābor	salvāberis, salvābere	salvābitur	salvābimur	salvābiminī	salvābuntur
	perfect	salvātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	salvātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	salvātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
subjunctive		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	salvem	salvēs	salvet	salvēmus	salvētis	salvent
	imperfect	salvārem	salvārēs	salvāret	salvārēmus	salvārētis	salvārent
	perfect	salvāverim	salvāverīs	salvāverit	salvāverīmus	salvāverītis	salvāverint
	pluperfect	salvāvissem	salvāvissēs	salvāvisset	salvāvissēmus	salvāvissētis	salvāvissent
passive	present	salver	salvēris, salvēre	salvētur	salvēmur	salvēminī	salventur
	imperfect	salvārer	salvārēris, salvārēre	salvārētur	salvārēmur	salvārēminī	salvārentur
	perfect	salvātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	salvātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
imperative		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	salvā	—	—	salvāte	—
active	future	—	salvātō	salvātō	—	salvātōte	salvantō
passive	present	—	salvāre	—	—	salvāminī	—
passive	future	—	salvātor	salvātor	—	—	salvantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
non-finite forms		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		salvāre	salvāvisse	salvātūrum esse	salvārī	salvātum esse	salvātum īrī
participles		salvāns	—	salvātūrus	—	salvātus	salvandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		salvandī	salvandō	salvandum	salvandō	salvātum	salvātū

Descendants

Catalan: salvar
Old French: sauver
- Middle French: saulver
  - French: sauver
- Norman: sauver (Jersey)
- → Middle English: saven, saave, salve, save, savi, savun, savye, savyn; salvin, sauven, sauvin, sawvin; safe, saffe, sauve, sayve; sovy
  - English: save
  - Scots: safe, sauf
Friulian: salvâ
Istriot: salvà
Italian: salvare
Occitan: salvar
Piedmontese: salvé
Polish: salwa
Portuguese: salvar
Romanian: salva
Romansch: salvar, salver
Sardinian: salvai, salvare, sarbai, sarbare, sarvai, sarvare
Sicilian: sarvari, salwa
Spanish: salvar
Venetian: salvar
→ Albanian: shëlboj[1]
→ English: salve (“to save, resolve, mitigate”)

References

Orel, Vladimir (1998), “salvo”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 412

“salvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
salvo 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)
salvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
- without violating, neglecting one's duty: salvo officio (Off. 3. 1. 4)
- to greet a person: aliquem salvere iubere (Att. 4. 14)
save in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.vu/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vu]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.vo/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vo]

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

Rhymes: (Portugal) -alvu, (Brazil) -awvu
Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

safe

Derived terms

são e salvo m, sã e salva f
a salvo

Participle

salvo (short participle, feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

past participle of salvar, "saved"

Verb

salvo

first-person singular present indicative of salvar; "I save"

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salvus. Cognate with English safe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsalbo/ [ˈsal.β̞o]
Rhymes: -albo
Syllabification: sal‧vo

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

safe

Derived terms

sano y salvo m, sana y salva f
a salvo

Adverb

salvo

except, apart from

Related terms

a salvo
salvación f
salvado m
salvamiento m
salva f
salvar
sano y salvo

Verb

salvo

first-person singular present indicative of salvar

salvo

English

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Catalan

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Dutch

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Galician

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Ido

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Italian

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Latin

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Portuguese

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Spanish

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