saveour
Appearance
Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- safeoure, salveour, sauveor, sauveour, sauveur, saveor, saveoure, saveur, savior, saviur, savyore, savyouer, savyour, savyoure, savyowre, sawiowre
- salver, sauver, sauvour, savare, saver, savere, savour (contracted)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French sauveor, salveor, from Latin salvātor; equivalent to saven + -our. Doublet of salvatour.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌsaːveːˈuːr/, /ˌsaːviˈuːr/, /ˈsaːvjur/, /ˌsau̯-/
- (contracted) IPA(key): /saːˈvuːr/, /ˈsaːvur/, /sau̯-/
Noun
[edit]saveour
- A saviour or deliverer; one who rescues from harm.
- (theology) A salvific religious figure, especially Jesus.
- (by extension) A communion wafer; Eucharistic bread.
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “sāveǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Categories:
- Middle English terms borrowed from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Old French
- Middle English terms derived from Latin
- Middle English terms suffixed with -our
- Middle English doublets
- Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
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