salvo

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

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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”).

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.

• salvo clause: in legal documents or audit reports details reservations or limitations

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”).

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.

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

1. (ambitransitive) To discharge weapons in a salvo.

• the Salvos

• Lovas, Slavo-, ovals, sa/vol

Inherited from Latin salvus. Compare Catalan salv.

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...

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvar

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.voː/

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• Hyphenation: sal‧vo

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

1. salvo, volley, a series of shots

• Afrikaans: salvo

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

1. safe

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

salvo

1. except

   Synonym: agás

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvar

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalvo/

salvo (plural salvi)

1. rescue

   Synonym: salvado

2. salvation

   Synonym: salveso

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

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

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

salvo

1. except, but, save

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

salvo che

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

   Synonym: a meno che non

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvare

• salvare

• slavo, solva, svola, valso

From salvus +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaɫ.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsal.vo]

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.

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

• salvāmentum
• salvātiō

• “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)
    
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “save”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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

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

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

1. safe

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

salvo

1. except, save

   Synonym: exceto

• salvo engano

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

1. past participle of salvar, "saved"

salvo

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

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

Inherited from Latin salvus. Cognate with English safe.

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

1. safe

   Synonym: seguro

salvo

1. except, apart from

   Synonyms: menos, excepto, sino

   Todos fueron a la fiesta, salvo Ana.

   Everyone went to the party, except Ana.

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvar

• “salvo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Borrowed from Italian salva.^[1] Doublet of her.

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

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.

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

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

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

salvo

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

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.

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