different between salvo vs shower

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?l?v?, IPA^(key): /?sælv??/
• (General American) enPR: s?l?v?, IPA^(key): /?sælvo?/

Etymology 1

From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salv?re (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
   • 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike

     They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.

Derived terms

• A salvo clause in legal documents or audit reports details reservations or limitations.

Translations

Etymology 2

A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

Noun

salvo (plural salvos or salvoes)

1. (military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
2. A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
3. (by extension) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
4. The combined cheers of a crowd.

Translations

Verb

salvo (third-person singular simple present salvos, present participle salvoing, simple past and past participle salvoed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To discharge weapons in a salvo.

See also

• the Salvos

Anagrams

• Lovas, Slavo-, ovals, sa/vol

Catalan

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of salvar

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French salve, from Italian salva, from Latin salv? (greeting).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.vo?/
• Hyphenation: sal?vo

Noun

salvo n (plural salvo's, diminutive salvootje n)

1. salvo, volley, a series of shots

Descendants

• Afrikaans: salvo

Galician

Adjective

salvo m (feminine singular salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

1. safe

Derived terms

• san e salvo m, sa e salva f
• a salvo

Preposition

salvo

1. except

   Synonym: agás

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?salvo/

Noun

salvo (plural salvi)

1. rescue

   Synonym: salvado

2. salvation

   Synonym: salveso

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

From Latin salvus. Cognate to French sauf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal.vo/

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvi, feminine plural salve)

1. safe, out of danger, saved, secure from

   Synonyms: salvato, fuori pericolo, al sicuro da

2. safe, whole, intact, undamaged

   Synonyms: intatto, indenne, non danneggiato

Preposition

salvo

1. except, but, save

   Synonyms: eccetto, tranne, eccetto, ad eccezione di, fatto salvo

Conjunction

salvo che

1. except that; save that, unless, if... not

   Synonym: a meno che non

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular present indicative of salvare

Related terms

• salvare

References

Anagrams

• salvò, slavo, solva, valso

Latin

Etymology

From salvus (“safe”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

salv? (present infinitive salv?re, perfect active salv?v?, supine salv?tum); first conjugation

1. (Late Latin) I save (make safe or healthy)
   • a. 430, Augustinus, Sermo XVII

     Non enim amat Deus damnare sed salvare.

     For God loves not to condemn but to save.

Usage notes

This term is not found in Classical Latin, which uses servo instead.

Conjugation

Descendants

References

• salvo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salvo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• salvo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• save in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?sawvu/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?sa?vu/
• Rhymes: -awvu
• Hyphenation: sal?vo

Adjective

salvo m (feminine singular salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas, comparable)

1. safe

Derived terms

• são e salvo m, sã e salva f
• a salvo

Verb

salvo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of salvar

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salvus. Cognate with English safe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?salbo/, [?sal.??o]
• Hyphenation: sal?vo

Adjective

salvo (feminine salva, masculine plural salvos, feminine plural salvas)

1. safe

Derived terms

• sano y salvo m, sana y salva f
• a salvo

Adverb

salvo

1. except, apart from

Related terms

Verb

salvo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of salvar.

References

• “salvo” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English shour, from Old English sc?r, from Proto-West Germanic *sk?ru, from Proto-Germanic *sk?r?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)??wer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Norwegian skur.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?(?)/
• (US) enPR: shou'?r, IPA^(key): /??a?.?/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?), -a??(?)

Noun

shower (plural showers)

1. A brief fall of precipitation (spell of rain, or a similar fall of snow, sleet, or cascade).
2. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

   Synonym: shower bath

3. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

   (UK, Australia)

   (especially US)

   Synonym: shower bath

4. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.

5. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
   1. A bridal shower.

   2. A baby shower.

6. (obsolete) A battle, an attack; conflict.
7. (chiefly Ireland, Britain, Australia, derogatory) A shower of shit.
   • 1956, Private's Progress (motion picture):

     You all behaved like a shower, now you are to be treated like a shower

8. (chiefly Ireland, euphemistic, derogatory, with of and an invective) Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
   • 1991, Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, page 208 (University of Chicago Press; ?ISBN, 9780226240718)

     It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???? (shaw?)

Translations

Verb

shower (third-person singular simple present showers, present participle showering, simple past and past participle showered)

1. (followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
2. To bathe using a shower.
3. To bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.

4. (intransitive) To rain in a shower; to cascade down.

Synonyms

• (bathe using a shower): have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From show +? -er.

Alternative forms

• show-er (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????.?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??o?.?/

Noun

shower (plural showers)

2. One who shows.
   • 2006, Bruce Christianson, ?Bruno Crispo, ?James A. Malcolm, Security Protocols: 12th International Workshop (page 18)

     When you show a credential there's a protocol whereby the showee has assurance that the shower possesses a credential of the particular type without actually seeing the bit string.

   • 2018, Elisabeth Reber, ?Cornelia Gerhardt, Embodied Activities in Face-to-Face and Mediated Settings (page 153)

     Once the showee looks at the object, the shower removes his or her gaze from the showee and gazes back at the object (see below and Fig. 5.2).

4. An object or activity that is shown in a contest.

5. (slang) A man whose penis is close to its full (erect) size when flaccid. [from 1990s]

   Antonym: grower

Translations

Further reading

• shower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Shower (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Howser, Whoser, howers, reshow, showre, whores

Swedish

Noun

shower

1. indefinite plural of show