salve

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
英 /sɑːv/|/sælv/    美 /sæ(l)v/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects. countable,uncountable
  2. Any remedy or action that soothes or heals. countable,uncountable
    — Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
动词 v.
  1. To calm or assuage. transitive
    — She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]
  2. To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies). obsolete
  3. To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute. transitive
    — By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]
  4. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
    — I do beseech your majesty […] salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."
  5. To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction). obsolete
    — He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....
  6. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
    — But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deedes.
  7. To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse. obsolete
  8. To salvage. dated
    — The interior woodwork was largely salved from the two cars, as well as the majority of the fittings and seats.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Hail; a greeting.

词形变化

salves plural salves present,singular,third-person salving participle,present salved participle,past salved past salves present,singular,third-person salving participle,present salved participle,past salved past salves present,singular,third-person salving participle,present salved participle,past salved past

词汇关系

衍生词
black salve eyesalve lip salve salve bug salvelike salvability salvable salvage salvee salver salvor unsalved weapon-salve

词源

词源 1
From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”).
Cognates
Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).
词源 2
From Old English sealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *salbōn, from Proto-Germanic *salbōną, from *salbō (whence salve (noun)).
词源 3
From Latin salvō (“to save”).
词源 4
From Latin salvē. The verb is from the interjection.
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