salva-, salv-

1. Unlikely to cause or result in harm, injury, or damage.
2. In a position or situation that offers protection, so that harm, damage, loss, or unwanted tampering is unlikely.
3. Etymology: from "uninjured, unharmed", from Old French sauf, from Latin salvus, "uninjured, healthy, safe", related to salus, "good health", saluber, "healthful".

With safety; in a safe manner.

1. Protection from, or not being exposed to, the risk of harm or injury a safety device.
2. The inability to cause or to result in harm, injury, or damage.
3. A place or situation where harm, damage, or loss is unlikely.
4. The fact of being or remaining unharmed, uninjured, or undamaged.

1. To save used, damaged, or rejected goods for recycling or for further use.
2. To save something of worth or merit from a situation or event that is otherwise a failure.
3. To save a ship, cargo, crew, or other property or goods from destruction or loss.

A branch of archaeology devoted to studying artifacts and features on sites which are in danger of being damaged, or destroyed, by development in the form of the construction of dams, buildings, highways, etc.

The rescue, or salvage, archaeologist, is concerned with the retrieval of as much information as possible about the archaeological sites before they are damaged or destroyed.

Salvage archaeology includes the location, recording (usually through excavation), and collection of archaeological data from a site in advance of highway construction, drainage projects, or urban development. In the U.S., the first major program of salvage archaeology was undertaken in the 1930s, ahead of the construction and dam building done by the Tennessee Valley authority.

1. Saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation.
2. A means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness.
3. The state of being saved or preserved from harm.
4. The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or a great calamity.
5. In Christianity, the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil via conversion.

A reference to preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.

Religious doctrine stressing salvation of the soul.

1. A member of the Salvation Army.
2. Someone who preaches salvation, deliverance from sin, etc., and the means of obtaining it; an evangelist or preacher.

1. a tray, especially one which is used for serving food or beverages.
2. A "tray," formed in English on the model of "platter", etc., from French salve, "tray used for presenting objects to the king", from Spanish salva, "a testing of food or drink" to test for poison (a procedure known as pre-gustation); hence, a "tray on which food was placed to show it was safe to eat", from salvar, "to save, to render safe"; from Late Latin salvare.

1. An alteration of salva (1591), "a simultaneous discharge of guns" from Italian salva, salue, volley, from Latin salve, "hail!"; literally, "be in good health!" from the usual Roman greeting, regarded as the imperative grammatical form of salvere "to be in good health".
2. The firing of several weapons simultaneously, especially at a formal military ceremony.

1. To rescue someone or something from harm or danger.
2. To avoid wasting something or using it unnecessarily.
3. To set something aside, to keep something back, or to protect something so that it can be used later.

1. Something that avoids wasting resources or using them unnecessarily.
2. Someone who saves money, especially in a bank account.

1. The rescue of someone or something from harm or danger.
2. An amount of time or money that is not spent or used.
3. A particular amount of money saved by buying the equivalent at a lower rate.

1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony.
2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death.