different between corrective vs salve

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French correctif.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?kt?v

Adjective

corrective (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
   • 1539, Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Helth, London, Book 3, Chapter 16, p. 73,^[1]

     Alway remember, that yf any other humour do abounde in the choleryke persone, as fleume, or melancolye, than vntyll that humour be expelled, the diete must be correctiue of that humour, and therfore more hotte and fyne, than the natural dyete before rehersed:

   • 1686, Richard Blome, The Gentlemans Recreation, London: for the author, “Moral Philosophy,” p. 30,^[2]

     The Justice that relates to Men, is either Universal, which gives us the Character of Good Men; or particular, and this is either Distributive or Corrective Justice. […] To corrective Justice belongs the punishment of Crimes.

   • 1795, Isaac D’Israeli, An Essay on the Manners and Genius of Literary Character, London: T. Cadell, Junr. and W. Davies, Chapter 3, p. 18,^[3]

     In the finished pieces of his youth, when he [John Milton] had a critical eye at every hour on every page, we find no want of corrective touches.

   • 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 25,^[4]

     Molly and Cynthia were out walking when she came—doing some errands for Mrs. Gibson, who had a secret idea that Lady Harriet would call at the particular time she did, and had a not uncommon wish to talk to her ladyship without the corrective presence of any member of her own family.

   • 1953, Patricia Wentworth, Vanishing Point, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 23,^[5]

     Florrie spoke angrily.

     “She hadn’t got nothing to say!”

     Miss Silver gave a slight corrective cough.

     “I noticed that she did not say anything.”

2. (obsolete) Qualifying; limiting.
   • 1642, Richard Holdsworth, A Sermon Preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, Cambridge, p. 27,^[6]

     The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy.^[7] It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

corrective (plural correctives)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts something.

   alkalies are correctives of acids

   penalties are correctives of immoral conduct

   • c. 1598, John Donne, “To Sir Henry Wotton” in Poems, London: John Marriot, 1633, p. 63,^[8]

     […] To make

     Courts hot ambitions wholesome, do not take

     A dramme of Countries dulnesse; do not adde

     Correctives, but as chymiques, purge the bad.

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, Of the proficience and aduancement of learning diuine, and humane in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon, London: Henrie Tomes, pp. 4b-5,^[9]

     If then such be the capacitie and receit of the mind of Man, it is manifest, that there is no daunger at all in the proportion or quantitie of knowledge howe large soeuer; least it should make it swell or outcompasse it selfe; no, but it is meerely the qualitie of knowledge, which be it in quantitie more or lesse, if it bee taken without the true correctiue thereof, hath in it some Nature of venome or malignitie, and some effects of that venome which is ventositie or swelling.

   • 1757, William Burke, An Account of the European Settlements in America, London: R. and J. Dodsley, Volume 2, Preface,^[10]

     The materials for the foreign settlements are far from being as perfect, or as much to be depended upon as we could wish; it was very seldom that I could venture to transcribe any thing directly from them without some addition or some corrective.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, Persuasion, Chapter 23,^[11]

     An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

   • 1941, George Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State” in Dickens, Dali and Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1946, p. 123,^[12]

     If one had to choose among Wells’s own contemporaries a writer who could stand towards him as a corrective, one might choose Kipling, who was not deaf to the evil voices of power and military “glory.”

2. (obsolete) Limitation; restriction.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, London: William Shrowsbery, Chapter 7, p. 203,^[13]

     What Correctives there may be supposed that may check and restrain that Increase of Mankind, that otherwise according to the ordinary course of Nature would have obtained in the World.

   • c. 1780, John Trusler, An Easy Way to Prolong Life, London: for the author, “Some observations upon drunkenness,” p. 28,^[14]

     It is a maxim established upon good reason, that every thing exceeding its just bounds, is hurtful to nature. The best of things are not excepted in this general rule. Even the necessary supports of life, if not qualified and made wholesome by this corrective, may prove the procurers of death.

French

Adjective

corrective

1. feminine singular of correctif

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: s?lv, säv, IPA^(key): /sælv/, /s??v/
• (US) enPR: s?lv, s?v, IPA^(key): /sælv/, /sæv/

Etymology 1

From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salb?, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh?, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).

Noun

salve (countable and uncountable, plural salves)

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

Derived terms

• black salve

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salb?n, 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.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV:

     I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."

3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
4. To salvage.

Derived terms

Translations

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).
   • 1661, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

     He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

3. (obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “salve”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

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.

Anagrams

• 'alves, Alves, Elvas, Levas, Selva, Slave, Slavé, Veals, avels, evals, laves, selva, slave, vales, valse, veals

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salv?/, [?salv?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German salve, from Old Saxon salva, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu.

Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

1. ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)

Inflection

Etymology 2

From French salve, from Latin salv? (“hail!, welcome!, farewell!”).

Noun

salve c (singular definite salven, plural indefinite salver)

1. salvo
2. volley
3. burst
4. tirade

Inflection

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German salven, from Old Saxon salbon, from Proto-West Germanic *salb?n (“to anoint”).

Verb

salve (imperative salv, infinitive at salve, present tense salver, past tense salvede, perfect tense er/har salvet)

1. anoint

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian salva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salv/

Noun

salve f (plural salves)

1. salvo, volley of shots.
2. round

See also

• salvage
• salvation

Further reading

• “salve” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• laves, lavés, levas, Slave, slave, valse, valsé

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal.ve/

Etymology 1

From Latin salv?.

Interjection

salve!

1. (formal) hello!; hi!; hail!

   Synonym: ciao (colloquial)

2. greetings

Further reading

• salve¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

Adjective

salve f pl

1. feminine plural of salvo

Etymology 3

Noun

salve f pl

1. plural of salva

Anagrams

• selva, slave, svela, valse

Latin

Etymology

Imperative of the verb salve?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sal.u?e?/, [?s?ä??u?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sal.ve/, [?s?lv?]

Interjection

salv?

1. hail!, hello!, welcome!
2. farewell!

Usage notes

• This is the singular form. When greeting a group, salv?te is used.

Related terms

Descendants

References

• salve in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salve in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salve in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• salve in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Adjective

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

Preposition

salve

1. Alternative form of sauf

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German salve (sense 1), and Latin salve (sense 2)

Noun

salve f or m (definite singular salva or salven, indefinite plural salver, definite plural salvene)

1. ointment, salve
2. salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

References

• “salve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German salve.

Noun

salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)

1. ointment, salve

Verb

salve (present tense salvar, past tense salva, past participle salva, passive infinitive salvast, present participle salvande, imperative salv)

1. (transitive) to anoint

Etymology 2

From Latin salve.

Noun

salve m or f (definite singular salven or salva, indefinite plural salvar or salver, definite plural salvane or salvene)

1. salvo, volley, a number of explosive charges all detonated at once when blasting rock.

Related terms

• salutt

References

• “salve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Salve, evlas, levas, salve, savle, svale, svela, valse, vasle, vesal, vesla

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin salv? (“hail”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?saw.vi/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?saw.ve/
• Rhymes: -awvi, -e

Interjection

salve!

1. (poetic) hail! greetings.

   Synonym: saudações

2. (chiefly on the Internet) greetings, hi

   Synonyms: saudações, olá, fala aí

Verb

salve

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of salvar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of salvar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of salvar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of salvar

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin salv?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal.ve/

Interjection

salve

1. welcome!, greetings!, cheerio!
2. so long!, bye-bye!

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?salbe/, [?sal.??e]

Etymology 1

From Latin salv? (“hail, hello”).

Interjection

salve

1. (archaic) hello
2. (poetic) hail

Etymology 2

Verb

salve

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of salvar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of salvar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of salvar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of salvar.