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# {{lb|en|now|mainly|forestry}} [[salvageable|Salvageable]], [[recoverable]]; allowing for [[recovery]].
# Capable of being [[save]]d; admitting of [[salvation]].
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} Capable of being [[save]]d; admitting of [[salvation]].
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==Middle English==

===Adjective===
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Revision as of 14:18, 12 April 2022

English

Etymology

From Latin salvare (to save), from salvus (safe). Compare savable.

Adjective

salvable (comparative more salvable, superlative most salvable)

  1. (now chiefly forestry) Salvageable, recoverable; allowing for recovery.
  2. (obsolete) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for salvable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


Middle English

Adjective

salvable

  1. Alternative form of savable

Spanish

Adjective

salvable m or f (masculine and feminine plural salvables)

  1. savable

Further reading