savior

See also: Savior

English

Alternative forms

saviour (UK)

Etymology

First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvo. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjə/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)

Noun

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A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
(medicine) A child who is born to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.)

Derived terms

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Translations

a person who saves someone, rescues another from harm

Arabic: مُخَلِّص‎ m (muḵalliṣ), مُنْقِذ‎ m (munqiḏ)
Aragonese: salvador m
Armenian: փրկիչ (hy) (pʿrkičʿ)
Belarusian: выратава́льнік m (vyrataválʹnik), выратава́льніца f (vyrataválʹnica)
Breton: salver (br) m
Bulgarian: спаси́тел (bg) m (spasítel)
Catalan: salvador (ca) m
Cebuano: manunubos
Chinese:
Cantonese: 救星 (gau³ sing¹)

Mandarin: 救世主 (zh) (jiùshìzhǔ), 救星 (zh) (jiùxīng)

Min Nan: 救星 (zh-min-nan) (kiù-chhiⁿ)
Cornish: salvador m, savyour m, selwyas m
Czech: zachránce (cs) m
Danish: frelser c
Dutch: redder (nl) m, redster (nl) f
Dzongkha: ཉེན་སྐྱོབ་འབད་མི (nyen skyob 'bad mi)
Ewe: xɔla n
Finnish: pelastaja (fi)
French: sauveur (fr) m, sauveuse (fr) f
German: Erlöser (de) m, Erlöserin (de) f, Retter (de) m, Retterin (de) f, Erretter m, Erretterin f
Greek: σωτήρας (el) m (sotíras), σώτειρα f (sóteira)
Ancient: σωτήρ m (sōtḗr), σώτειρα f (sṓteira)
Hebrew: מוׄשִיעַ‎ (moshía)
Hungarian: megváltó (hu), megmentő (hu)
Irish: slánaitheoir m
Italian: redentore (it) m, redentrice f, salvatore (it) m, salvatrice (it) f
Japanese: 救世主 (ja) (きゅうせいしゅ, kyūseishu)
Kazakh: құтқарушы (qūtqaruşy)
Korean: 구세주(救世主) (ko) (guseju)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xelaskarê
Latin: salvātor m, salvātrīx f, servātor m, servātrīx f, Sospita (chiefly as an epithet of Juno)
Latvian: glābējs m, glābēja f
Lithuanian: gelbėtojas m, gelbėtoja f
Macedonian: спасител m (spasitel)
Malay: penyelamat (ms)
Manx: saualtagh
Maori: kaiwhakaora
Middle English: saveour
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: аврагч (mn) (avragč)
Navajo: yisdáʼiiníiłii
Ngazidja Comorian: mkombozi class 1/2
Norman: sauveux, saûveux
Norwegian:
Bokmål: frelser (no) m, frelserinne f, redningsmann m, redningskvinne m or f

Nynorsk: frelsar m, frelserinne f, redningsmann m, redningskvinne f
Occitan: sauvador (oc) m, sarvaor m, sauvaire (oc) m
Old English: hǣlend m
Picard: sauveu
Polish: ratownik (pl) m, ratowniczka (pl) f, wybawca (pl) m, wybawczyni f, wybawiciel (pl) m, wybawicielka f
Portuguese: salvador (pt) m, salvadora (pt) f
Romanian: mântuitor (ro) m or n
Russian: спаси́тель (ru) m (spasítelʹ), спаси́тельница (ru) f (spasítelʹnica), спаса́тель (ru) m (spasátelʹ) (rescuer, rescue worker), спаса́тельница (ru) f (spasátelʹnica)
Scottish Gaelic: slànaighear m, slànair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: спа̀ситељ m

Roman: spàsitelj (sh) m
Slovak: záchranca m
Slovene: reševalec m
Spanish: salvador (es) m, salvadora (es) f
Swahili: mkombozi (sw)
Swedish: frälsare (sv) c, frälserinna c
Tagalog: tagapagligtas
Tibetan: སྐྱོབ་མཁན (skyob mkhan), སྐྱབས་མགོན (skyabs mgon)
Turkish: kurtarıcı (tr)
Ukrainian: рятівни́к m (rjativnýk), рятівни́ця f (rjativnýcja)
Urdu: مَسِیحا‎ m (masīḥā) (figuratively)
Vietnamese: cứu tinh (vi)
Walloon: såveu
Welsh: achubwr m, gwaredwr (cy) m, iachawdwr m

Anagrams

Arviso, varios

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.u̯i.or/, [ˈs̠äːu̯iɔr]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.vi.or/, [ˈsäːvior]

Verb

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Alternative form of suāvior

Conjugation

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References

“savior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Alternative form of saveour

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