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”).
Meanings
An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike
They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.
An alteration from 1719 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”).
Meanings
A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
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.[…]” 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 276:
(broadly) Any volley, as in an argument or debate.
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. 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
Together, Johnson's plans mean that the clashes in parliament and the Supreme Court may be only the opening salvos in what promises to be the biggest constitutional storm in centuries. 2019 October 6, Tim Shipman, Caroline Wheeler, “'Sack me if you dare,' Johnson will tell Queen”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,178, page 1:
The combined cheers of a crowd.
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pl salwa (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · bg залп (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · de Salve (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · fi yhteislaukaus (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · be залп (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · uk залп (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · mk салва (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ru залп (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · mk плотун (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · es andanada (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · es salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · sh plòtūn (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · id salvo (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · da salve (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · nl eresalvo (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · cs výbuch (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · sh пло̀тӯн (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · nl salvo (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · cs salva (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · cmn 齊射 /齐射 (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · pl salwa (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · sh sȃlva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · az yaylım (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · pl salwa (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · de Salve (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · kk дүркін (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ro salvă (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · cs salva (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · sh plòtūn (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · fi yhteislaukaus (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ro salvă (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · fi tulitus (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · mk рафал (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · nl schot voor de boeg (any volley, as in an argument or debate) · sh пло̀тӯн (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · ja 斉射 (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · mi waiwaipū (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · sl salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · sh са̑лва (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ca salva (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · hy համազարկ (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ru залп (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · sv salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · sk salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · el ομοβροντία (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ca salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · lv zalve (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · it salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · de Salve (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · mi waipū (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ko 일제 사격 (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · pt salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · cs salva (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · fi salvo (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · fr salve (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · ka ზალპი (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · lt salvė (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · fa آتش همزمان (concentrated fire from pieces of artillery) · it salva (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons) · nl saluutschoten (salute paid by a simultaneous firing of a number of cannons)
An alteration from 1719 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”).