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Salvo
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- 1 A surname from Italian.
- 2 A census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.
- 1 An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
"1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations."
- 2 A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
- 3 rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms wordnet
- 4 A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
"“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”"
- 5 a sudden outburst of cheers wordnet
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- 6 Any volley, as in an argument or debate. broadly
"It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign."
- 7 an outburst resembling the discharge of firearms or the release of bombs wordnet
- 8 The combined cheers of a crowd.
- 1 To discharge weapons in a salvo. ambitransitive
Etymology
From Latin salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of salvāre (“to save, to reserve”), either from salvo jure (“the right being reserved”), or from salvo errore et omissone (“reserving error and omission”).
A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).
A 1719 alteration of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).
Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan (Salvó) surname, all from the adjective salvo (“safe, saved”), or from its Latin source salvus (“safe”), found in names like Salvus and Salvone.
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