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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *salawos, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós, from *solh₂- (“whole”) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus; for a similar semantic development see wholesome).
Pronunciation
Adjective
salvus (feminine salva, neuter salvum); first/second-declension adjective
- safe, saved, preserved, sound, unharmed, unscathed, unhurt, uninjured
- Synonyms: sanus, saluber, validus, integer, intactus, sospes, incolumis, sollus, innoxius
- Antonyms: aeger, miser, fessus, īnfirmus, languidus
Hanc rem publicam salvam esse volumus.- We wish this republic to be safe.
- well, healthy, wholesome
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “salvus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- salvus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- without breaking the law: salvis legibus (vid. sect. X. 7, note Notice...)