Where does “salvage” come from?
Salvage comes from English salvage, derived from Catalan salvatge, from Latin salvus meaning "safe or unharmed," with the adjectival suffix -icus from Proto-Indo-European -kos.
salvage (English): The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from...
Definitions
- The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from...
Ancestry of “salvage”, step by step
salvage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Spanish salvaje
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spanish | salvaje | wild, savage; savage, feral, uncivilized; savage |
| 2 | Old Occitan | salvatge | — |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | salvaticus | — |
| 4 | Latin | silvāticus | of the woods, sylvan |
| 5 | Latin | -aticus | Used to form adjectives indicating a relation to... |
| 6 | Latin | -ātus | ed |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -ātos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂tos | Forms adjectives from nouns, indicating the possession of a thing or a quality |