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English
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
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
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
- 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
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Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
sāvior (present infinitive sāviārī, perfect active sāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- alternative form of suāvior
Conjugation
References
- “savior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle English
Noun
savior
- alternative form of saveour