Ave vs Salve - What's the difference?

Salve is a synonym of ave.

As nouns the difference between ave and salve

is that ave is an Ave Maria while salve is an ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

As a verb salve is

to calm or assuage.

As an interjection salve is

hail; a greeting.

ave

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Noun

(en noun)

An Ave Maria.

A reverential salutation.

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Alternative forms

Noun

avenue

average

Anagrams

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salve

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) sealf, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Any thing or action that soothes or heals.

Derived terms

* (l)

Verb

(salv)

To calm or assuage.

To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint.

* Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV :

I do beseech your majesty . . . salve the long-grown wounds of my intemperance."

To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good.

* Spenser

But Ebranck salved both their infamies / With noble deeds.

* Milton

What may we do, then, to salve this seeming inconsistence?

To salvage.

Etymology 2

From (etyl)

Verb

(salv)

(obsolete, astronomy) To save (the appearances or the phenomena); to explain (a celestial phenomenon); to account for (the apparent motions of the celestial bodies).

(obsolete) to resolve (a difficulty); to refute (an objection); to harmonize (an apparent contradiction).

* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems

He which should hold it more rational to make the whole Universe move, and thereby to salve the Earths mobility, is more unreasonable....

(obsolete) To explain away; to mitigate; to excuse

References

Etymology 3

(etyl) (lena)

Interjection

(en interjection)

hail; a greeting

Verb

(salv)

To say "salve" to; to greet; to salute.

* Spenser

By this that stranger knight in presence came, / And goodly salved them.

Anagrams

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