salvo

Meanings

1. An exception; a reservation; an excuse.

1. 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. Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
4. The combined cheers of a crowd.

1. To discharge weapons in a salvo.

1. A surname from Italian.

1. A census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.

Etymology

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