Noun: salve
| Singular | salve |
| Plural | salves |
Sample Sentences
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Your forgiveness was a salve to my conscience and a balm to my wounded ego.
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[Title:] Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report [2025 April 30, “Tame March PCE inflation no salve after downbeat Q1 US GDP report”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 01 May 2025:]
Nouns inflected like salve
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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”).
2. Cognates
3. 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). See: Middle English Nouns '
salve', Old English Nouns '
sealf', Danish Nouns '
salve', Dutch Nouns '
zalf', German Nouns '
Salbe', Gothic Nouns '
𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃'.