English
salvo
Salvo comes from Latin salvāre ‘to save, to reserve’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalvāre‘to save, to reserve’
- Englishtodaysalvo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalvāre‘to save, to reserve’
- Englishtodaysalvo
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- ‘whole’
sold, solid, holocaust, sol, xu, salute, sou, salutation, salutary, salubrious, 29 more
through Proto-Italic *salawos ‘whole’
through Latin salvus ‘well, healthy, wholesome’
through Latin salvo ‘the right being reserved’
savior, salvation, salve, 4 more
through Latin salvāre ‘to save, to reserve’
Another origin of salvo
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*solh₂-‘whole’reconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*salawos‘whole’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalvus‘well, healthy, wholesome’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalvōas salvere, imperative‘to be in good health’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalve‘hail’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalva‘salute, volley’
- Englishtodaysalvo
An alteration from 1719 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’).
Today it means
noun An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin salvāre / salvo