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Definition salve

Etymology 1

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-Germanic *salb?, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh?, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”). Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic ??????? (salb?ns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit ??????? (sarpís), Ancient Greek ????? (élpos).

Noun

salve (plural salves)

1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Etymology 2

From Old English sealfian, from Proto-Germanic *salb?n?, from *salb? (whence salve (noun)).

Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)

1. (transitive) To calm or assuage.
2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
4. To salvage.

Etymology 3

From Latin salv? (“to save”).

Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)

1. (obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
2. (obsolete) To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

Etymology 4

From Latin salv?.

Interjection

salve

1. Hail; a greeting.

Etymology 5

From the interjection salve.

Verb

salve (third-person singular simple present salves, present participle salving, simple past and past participle salved)

1. (transitive) To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

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