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salvar.

to save (to help someone to survive; to make sure something isn’t destroyed)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/sawˈva(ʁ)/Brazil[saʊ̯ˈva(h)]Brazil/sawˈva(ɾ)/São-Paulo[saʊ̯ˈva(ɾ)]São-Paulo
  1. to save (to help someone to survive; to make sure something isn’t destroyed)

    transitive
  2. to save (to write a file to disk)

    Brazil · transitive
  3. to save (to redeem or protect someone from eternal damnation)

    transitive
  4. to greet with a salvo

    transitive
  5. to greet

    broadly · transitive
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese salvar, from Late Latin salvāre (“to save”), from Latin salvus (“safe”), from Proto-Indo-European *solo- (“whole”).

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