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):

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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)

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
   • 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike

     They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.

Derived terms

• 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)

1. (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:

     “Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom. […]”

3. (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
   • 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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, 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.

4. 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

• Czech: výbuch (cs) m, salva f
• 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
• Czech: salva 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)

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

See also

• the Salvos

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)

1. (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...

Etymology 2

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative 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:

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• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Noun

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

1. salvo, volley, a series of shots

Descendants

• Afrikaans: salvo

Galician

Etymology 1

Adjective

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

1. safe

Derived terms

• san e salvo m, sa e salva f
• a salvo

Preposition

salvo

1. except

   Synonym: agás

Etymology 2

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvar

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalvo/

Noun

salvo (plural salvi)

1. rescue

   Synonym: salvado

2. salvation

   Synonym: salveso

Derived terms

• salvar
• salvita

 

Italian

Etymology

From Latin salvus. Cognate to French sauf.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

1. safe, out of danger, saved, secure from

   Synonyms: salvato, fuori pericolo, al sicuro da

2. safe, whole, intact, undamaged

   Synonyms: intatto, indenne, non danneggiato

Preposition

salvo

1. except, but, save

   Synonyms: eccetto, tranne, eccetto, ad eccezione di, fatto salvo

Conjunction

salvo che

1. except that; save that, unless, if... not

   Synonym: a meno che non

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvare

Related terms

• salvare

Anagrams

• slavo, solva, svola, valso

Latin

Etymology

From salvus ‎ -ō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.u̯oː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vo/, [ˈsälvo]

Verb

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

1. to 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

Not found in Classical Latin, where servō was used instead.

Conjugation

Conjugation of salvō (first conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		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
		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
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	salvā	—	—	salvāte	—
	future	—	salvātō	salvātō	—	salvātōte	salvantō
passive	present	—	salvāre	—	—	salvāminī	—
	future	—	salvātor	salvātor	—	—	salvantor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		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

Derived terms

• salvāmentum
• salvātiō

Descendants

• Catalan: salvar
• Old French: sauver, salvar (Oaths of Strasbourg), salver
  • Middle French: saulver
    • French: sauver
  • Norman: sauver (Jersey)
  • → Middle English: saven
    • English: save
    • Geordie English: syev
    • 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: sarbari
• Spanish: salvar
• Venetan: salvar
• → Albanian: shëlboj
• → English: salve (“to save, resolve, mitigate”)

References

• “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^[2], 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, →OCLC.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsaw.vu/ [ˈsaʊ̯.vu]

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

 

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

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vu/ [ˈsaɫ.vu]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.bu/ [ˈsaɫ.βu]

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

Etymology 1

From Latin salvus. Compare Italian and Spanish salvo and French sauf.

Adjective

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

1. safe

Derived terms

• são e salvo m, sã e salva f
• a salvo

Preposition

salvo

1. except, save

   Synonym: exceto

Derived terms

• salvo engano

Etymology 2

Participle

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

1. past participle of salvar, "saved"

Verb

salvo

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin salvus. Cognate with English safe.

Adjective

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

1. safe

   Synonym: seguro

Derived terms

• a salvo
• dejar a salvo
• fiador de salvo
• paz y salvo
• sano y salvo

 

Adverb

salvo

1. except, apart from

   Synonyms: menos, excepto, sino

   Todos fueron a la fiesta, salvo Ana.

   Everyone went to the party, except Ana.

Related terms

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

 

Etymology 2

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvar

Further reading

• “salvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salva. Doublet of her.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaɫ.βo/
• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Noun

salvo (definite accusative salvoyu, plural salvolar)

1. (military) A barrage of artillery fire, volley, salvo.

   Synonym: yaylım ateşi

2. (by extension) A concentrated series of attacks.

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	salvo
Definite accusative	salvoyu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	salvo	salvolar
Definite accusative	salvoyu	salvoları
Dative	salvoya	salvolara
Locative	salvoda	salvolarda
Ablative	salvodan	salvolardan
Genitive	salvonun	salvoların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular salvom salvolarım 2nd singular salvon salvoların 3rd singular salvosu salvoları 1st plural salvomuz salvolarımız 2nd plural salvonuz salvolarınız 3rd plural salvoları salvoları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular salvomu salvolarımı 2nd singular salvonu salvolarını 3rd singular salvosunu salvolarını 1st plural salvomuzu salvolarımızı 2nd plural salvonuzu salvolarınızı 3rd plural salvolarını salvolarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular salvoma salvolarıma 2nd singular salvona salvolarına 3rd singular salvosuna salvolarına 1st plural salvomuza salvolarımıza 2nd plural salvonuza salvolarınıza 3rd plural salvolarına salvolarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular salvomda salvolarımda 2nd singular salvonda salvolarında 3rd singular salvosunda salvolarında 1st plural salvomuzda salvolarımızda 2nd plural salvonuzda salvolarınızda 3rd plural salvolarında salvolarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular salvomdan salvolarımdan 2nd singular salvondan salvolarından 3rd singular salvosundan salvolarından 1st plural salvomuzdan salvolarımızdan 2nd plural salvonuzdan salvolarınızdan 3rd plural salvolarından salvolarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular salvomun salvolarımın 2nd singular salvonun salvolarının 3rd singular salvosunun salvolarının 1st plural salvomuzun salvolarımızın 2nd plural salvonuzun salvolarınızın 3rd plural salvolarının salvolarının

Further reading

• “salvo”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “salvo”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4047

Votic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlvo/, [ˈsɑɫvo]
• Rhymes: -ɑlvo
• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

Noun

salvo

1. grain bin
2. casing (side supporting structure of a well)
3. notched joint

Inflection

Declension of salvo (type II/võrkko, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	salvo	salvod
genitive	salvo	salvojõ, salvoi
partitive	salvoa	salvoitõ, salvoi
illative	salvosõ, salvo	salvoisõ
inessive	salvoz	salvoiz
elative	salvossõ	salvoissõ
allative	salvolõ	salvoilõ
adessive	salvollõ	salvoillõ
ablative	salvoltõ	salvoiltõ
translative	salvossi	salvoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “salvo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn