Meaning
- (transitive) to save (to help someone to survive; to make sure something isn’t destroyed)
- (Brazil, transitive) to save (to write a file to disk)
- (transitive) to save (to redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation)
- (transitive) to greet with a salvo
- (broadly, transitive) to greet
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/sawˈva(ʁ)/
Etymology
In summary
From Old Galician-Portuguese salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solo- (“whole”).
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