savior
English
Alternative forms
- saviour (UK)
Etymology
First attested in 1300. From Middle English saviour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvāre.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪviə(ɹ)
Noun
savior (plural saviors)
- (US) A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
- (US, 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
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Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsaː.wi.or/, [ˈsaː.wi.ɔr]
Verb
sāvior (present infinitive sāviārī, perfect active sāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- Alternative form of suāvior
Inflection
| Conjugation of savior (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | sāvior | sāviāris, sāviāre | sāviātur | sāviāmur | sāviāminī | sāviantur |
| imperfect | sāviābar | sāviābāris, sāviābāre | sāviābātur | sāviābāmur | sāviābāminī | sāviābantur | |
| future | sāviābor | sāviāberis, sāviābere | sāviābitur | sāviābimur | sāviābiminī | sāviābuntur | |
| perfect | sāviātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | sāviātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | sāviātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | sāvier | sāviēris, sāviēre | sāviētur | sāviēmur | sāviēminī | sāvientur |
| imperfect | sāviārer | sāviārēris, sāviārēre | sāviārētur | sāviārēmur | sāviārēminī | sāviārentur | |
| perfect | sāviātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | sāviātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | sāviāre | — | — | sāviāminī | — |
| future | — | sāviātor | sāviātor | — | — | sāviantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | sāviārī | sāviātus esse | sāviātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | sāviāns | sāviātus | sāviātūrus | — | — | sāviandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| sāviārī | sāviandī | sāviandō | sāviandum | sāviātum | sāviātū | ||
References
- savior in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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