different between remedy vs salve

English

Etymology

From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???m?di/
• Hyphenation: rem?e?dy

Noun

remedy (plural remedies)

1. Something that corrects or counteracts.
2. (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
3. A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

4. The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.

Synonyms

• (Scottish contexts): remeid

Derived terms

• home remedy
• remediless

Translations

Verb

remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)

1. (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.

     Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,

Synonyms

• redress
• help
• correct
• cure
• See also Thesaurus:repair

Translations

Related terms

• remediable
• remedial

Further reading

• remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search

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.