savior

See also: Savior

English

Alternative forms

saviour (UK)

Etymology

First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjə/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)

Noun

savior (plural saviors) (American spelling)

A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
(medicine) A child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

a person who saves someone, rescues another from harm

Arabic: مُخَلِّص m (muḵalliṣ), مُنْقِذ m (munqiḏ)
Aragonese: salvador m
Armenian: փրկիչ (hy) (pʻrkičʻ)
Belarusian: выратава́льнік m (vyrataválʹnik), выратава́льніца f (vyrataválʹnica)
Breton: salver (br) m
Bulgarian: спаси́тел (bg) m (spasítel)
Catalan: salvador (ca) m
Cebuano: manunubos
Chinese:
Cantonese: 救星 (gau³ sing¹)

Hokkien: 救星 (zh-min-nan) (kiù-chhiⁿ)

Mandarin: 救世主 (zh) (jiùshìzhǔ), 救星 (zh) (jiùxīng)
Cornish: salvador m, savyour m, selwyas m
Czech: zachránce (cs) m
Danish: frelser c
Dutch: redder (nl) m, redster (nl) f
Dzongkha: ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་འབད་མི (nyen skyob 'bad mi)
Ewe: xɔla n
Faroese: frelsari m
Finnish: pelastaja (fi)
French: sauveur (fr) m, sauveuse (fr) f
Georgian: მშველელი (mšveleli), გადამრჩენი (gadamrčeni), მხსნელი (mxsneli)
German: Erlöser (de) m, Erlöserin (de) f, Retter (de) m, Retterin (de) f, Erretter m, Erretterin f
Greek: σωτήρας (el) m (sotíras), σώτειρα f (sóteira)
Ancient: σωτήρ m (sōtḗr), σώτειρα f (sṓteira)
Hebrew: מוֹשִיעַ (moshía)
Hungarian: megváltó (hu), megmentő (hu)
Icelandic: frelsari (is) m
Irish: slánaitheoir m
Italian: redentore (it) m, redentrice f, salvatore (it) m, salvatrice (it) f
Japanese: 救世主 (ja) (きゅうせいしゅ, kyūseishu)
Kazakh: құтқарушы (qūtqaruşy)
Korean: 구세주(救世主) (ko) (guseju)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xelaskarê
Latin: salvātor m, salvātrīx f, servātor m, servātrīx f, Sospita (chiefly as an epithet of Juno)
Latvian: glābējs m, glābēja f
Lithuanian: gelbėtojas m, gelbėtoja f
Macedonian: спасител m (spasitel)
Malay: penyelamat (ms)
Manx: saualtagh
Maori: kaiwhakaora
Middle English: saveour
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: аврагч (mn) (avragč)
Navajo: yisdáʼiiníiłii
Ngazidja Comorian: mkombozi class 1/2
Norman: sauveux, saûveux
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frelser (no) m, frelserinne f, redningsmann m, redningskvinne m or f

Nynorsk: frelsar m, frelserinne f, redningsmann m, redningskvinne f
Occitan: sauvador (oc) m, sarvaor m, sauvaire (oc) m
Old English: hǣlend m
Old Saxon: hēliand m
Persian: منجی (fa) (monji)
Picard: sauveu
Polish: ratownik (pl) m, ratowniczka (pl) f, wybawca (pl) m, wybawczyni f, wybawiciel (pl) m, wybawicielka f, zbawiciel (pl) m (archaic), zbawca (pl) m (colloquial)
Portuguese: salvador (pt) m, salvadora (pt) f
Romanian: mântuitor (ro) m or n
Russian: спаси́тель (ru) m (spasítelʹ), спаси́тельница (ru) f (spasítelʹnica), спаса́тель (ru) m (spasátelʹ) (rescuer, rescue worker), спаса́тельница (ru) f (spasátelʹnica)
Scottish Gaelic: slànaighear m, slànair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: спа̀ситељ m

Roman: spàsitelj (sh) m
Sicilian: sarbaturi m
Slovak: záchranca m
Slovene: reševalec m
Spanish: salvador (es) m, salvadora (es) f
Swahili: mkombozi (sw)
Swedish: frälsare (sv) c, frälserinna c
Tagalog: tagapagligtas
Tibetan: སྐྱོབ་མཁན (skyob mkhan), སྐྱབས་མགོན (skyabs mgon)
Turkish: kurtarıcı (tr)
Ukrainian: рятівни́к m (rjativnýk), рятівни́ця f (rjativnýcja)
Urdu: مَسِیحا m (masīḥā) (figuratively)
Vietnamese: cứu tinh (vi)
Walloon: såveu
Welsh: achubwr m, gwaredwr (cy) m, iachawdwr m

Anagrams

Arviso, varios

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.wi.ɔr]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.vi.or]

Verb

sāvior (present infinitive sāviārī, perfect active sāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

alternative form of suāvior

Conjugation

Conjugation of sāvior (first conjugation, deponent)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	sāvior	sāviāris, sāviāre		sāviātur	sāviāmur	sāviāminī		sāviantur
	imperfect	sāviābar	sāviābāris, sāviābāre		sāviābātur	sāviābāmur	sāviābāminī		sāviābantur
	future	sāviābor	sāviāberis, sāviābere		sāviābitur	sāviābimur	sāviābiminī		sāviābuntur
	perfect	sāviātus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	sāviātus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	sāviātus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	sāvier	sāviēris, sāviēre		sāviētur	sāviēmur	sāviēminī		sāvientur
	imperfect	sāviārer	sāviārēris, sāviārēre		sāviārētur	sāviārēmur	sāviārēminī		sāviārentur
	perfect	sāviātus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	sāviātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	sāviāre		—	—	sāviāminī		—
active	future	—	sāviātor		sāviātor	—	—		sāviantor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		sāviārī		—		sāviāns		—
future		sāviātūrum esse		—		sāviātūrus		sāviandus
perfect		sāviātum esse		—		sāviātus		—
future perfect		sāviātum fore		—		—		—
perfect potential		sāviātūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		sāviandī	sāviandō		sāviandum	sāviandō	sāviātum		sāviātū

References

“savior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Noun

savior

alternative form of saveour