salvator

Inherited from Middle English salvatour, from Latin salvātor.

salvator (plural salvators)

1. (obsolete) A savior.

From salvō +‎ -tor. Compare Paelignian salauatur (“(a type of) official”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [saɫˈwaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [salˈvaː.t̪or]

salvātor m (genitive salvātōris, feminine salvātrīx); third declension

1. saviour

Third-declension noun.

• salvātrīx

• → Middle English: salvatour
  • English: salvator
• Old French: sauveor
  • French: sauveur
  • → Middle English: saveour
    • English: savior, saviour; Savior, Saviour
    • Scots: saviour; Saviour
• Italian: salvatore
• Old Occitan: salvador
  • Occitan: salvador
• Old Piedmontese: salvare (nominative), salvaor (accusative)
• Catalan: salvador
• Portuguese: salvador
• Romanian: salvator
• Sicilian: sarbaturi
• Old Spanish: salbatore
  • Spanish: salvador

salvātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of salvō

• “salvator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "salvator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• salvator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

salvator

1. alternative form of salvatour

Borrowed from French salvateur. By surface analysis, salva +‎ -tor.

salvator m or n (feminine singular salvatoare, masculine plural salvatori, feminine and neuter plural salvatoare)

1. saving; that saves