different between salvage vs lagan

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sælv?d?/

Etymology 1

From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare (“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”) with the English suffix -age.

Noun

salvage (countable and uncountable, plural salvages)

1. The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from a hazardous situation.
2. The ship, crew or cargo so rescued.
3. The compensation paid to the rescuers.
4. The money from the sale of rescued goods.
5. The similar rescue of property liable to loss; the property so rescued.
6. (sometimes attributive) Anything put to good use that would otherwise have been wasted, such as damaged goods.

Translations

Verb

salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvaging, simple past and past participle salvaged)

1. (transitive, of property, people or situations at risk) to rescue.
2. (transitive, of discarded goods) to put to use.
3. (transitive) To make new or restore for the use of being saved.

Translations

Derived terms

• salvageability
• salvageable
• salvager

Related terms

• salvation

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Noun

salvage (plural salvages)

1. Obsolete spelling of savage [16th-19th c.]

Etymology 3

From Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salv?ticus, alteration of Latin silv?ticus (““wild"; literally, "of the woods"”), from silva (“forest", "grove”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).

Noun

salvage (plural salvages)

1. (Philippine English) summary execution, extrajudicial killing

Verb

salvage (third-person singular simple present salvages, present participle salvaging, simple past and past participle salvaged)

1. (Philippine English) To perform summary execution.
2. (Philippine English) To apprehend and execute (a suspected criminal) without trial.

References

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• lavages

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English salvage.

Noun

salvage

1. summary execution, extrajudicial killing

Verb

salvage

1. To perform summary execution.

Middle English

Noun

salvage

1. Alternative form of savage

Old French

Adjective

salvage m (oblique and nominative feminine singular salvage)

1. Alternative form of sauvage

Declension

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English salvage.

Noun

salvage

1. summary execution, extrajudicial killing

Verb

salvage

1. To perform summary execution.

English

Etymology

Per Littré, from Old French lagan, from Medieval Latin laga maris (“law of the sea”), from Old Norse lag (“law”) and Latin maris (“of the sea”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?læ??n/

Noun

lagan (uncountable)

1. (law) Goods or materials found or left on the sea floor, attached to a floating marker that indicates ownership.

See also

• flotsam
• jetsam
• derelict
• salvage

References

Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle, Paris, 1881-1902

Anagrams

• Galan, Ngala, alang

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?g?k?, *l?g?n?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?leng??-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lâ?an/
• Hyphenation: la?gan

Adjective

l?gan (definite l?gan?, comparative lagànij?, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. light
2. easy (of a task)
3. (figuratively) slow

Declension

Derived terms

• l?gano

Related terms

• l?k

Antonyms

• težak