salvable
English
Etymology
From Latin salvare (“to save”), from salvus (“safe”). Compare savable.
Adjective
salvable (comparative more salvable, superlative most salvable)
- (now chiefly forestry) Salvageable, recoverable; allowing for recovery.
- (obsolete) Capable of being saved; admitting of salvation.
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- salvable Condition
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Related terms
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- Alternative form of savable
Spanish
Adjective
salvable m or f (masculine and feminine plural salvables)
Further reading
- “salvable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014