salve

Meanings

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

1. To calm or assuage.
2. To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.
3. To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.
4. To salvage.

1. To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).
2. To resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).
3. To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse.

1. Hail; a greeting.

1. To say “salve” to; to greet; to salute.

Etymology

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).