Etymology

save

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Today it means: To help (somebody) to survive, or rescue (somebody or something) from harm. Full definition →

Middle English saven ← Old French sauver ← Latin salvāre
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save · verb, noun, preposition, conjunction1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*solh₂-
  2. Proto-Italic*sal(V)wos
  3. Latinsalvus
  4. Latinsalvō
  5. Latinsalvāre
  6. Old Frenchsauver
  7. Middle Englishsaven
  8. English todaysave

From Middle English saven, sauven, a borrowing from Old French sauver, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”). Displaced native Old English nerian.

SAVE · noun2

Abbreviation.

Words from the same roots

Late Latinsalvāre all →

salvage

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