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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

  1. The rescue of a ship, its crew or its cargo from...

Ancestry of “salvage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishsalvajewild, savage; savage, feral, uncivilized; savage
2Old Occitansalvatge—
3Vulgar Latinsalvaticus—
4Latinsilvāticus—
5Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
6Latin-ātus—
7Proto-Italic-ātos—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—

Words derived from “salvage”

  • salvaging
  • salvageable
  • unsalvageable
  • salvager
  • salvageability
  • salvagee
  • unsalvageably
  • postsalvage
  • salvage
  • salvage
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