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 salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈseɪvjə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ)

Noun

savior (plural saviors) (American spelling)

1. A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm.
2. (medicine) A child who is conceived in order 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

• savior complex
• saviour sibling
• saviouress
• saviourhood
• saviourship

Related terms

• Savior, Saviour
• salvor
• salvager
• salvator
• El Salvador
• Salvador
• Salvatore

Translations

a person who saves someone, rescues another from harm

• Arabic: مُخَلِّص m (muḵalliṣ), مُنْقِذ m (munqiḏ)
• Aragonese: salvador m
• Armenian: փրկիչ (hy) (pʻrkičʻ)
• 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)

  Hokkien: 救星 (zh-min-nan) (kiù-chhiⁿ)

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

• 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
• Faroese: frelsari m
• Finnish: pelastaja (fi)
• French: sauveur (fr) m, sauveuse (fr) f
• Georgian: მშველელი (mšveleli), გადამრჩენი (gadamrčeni), მხსნელი (mxsneli)
• 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: מוֹשִיעַ (moshía)
• Hungarian: megváltó (hu), megmentő (hu)
• Icelandic: frelsari (is) m
• 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
• Old Saxon: hēliand m
• Persian: منجی (fa) (monji)
• Picard: sauveu
• Polish: ratownik (pl) m, ratowniczka (pl) f, wybawca (pl) m, wybawczyni f, wybawiciel (pl) m, wybawicielka f, zbawiciel (pl) m (archaic), zbawca (pl) m (colloquial)
• 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 Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.u̯i.or/, [ˈs̠äːu̯iɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.vi.or/, [ˈsäːvior]

Verb

sāvior (present infinitive sāviārī, perfect active sāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. Alternative form of suāvior

Conjugation

   Conjugation of sāvior (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	sāviātum esse	sāviātūrum esse	—	—	—
participles		sāviāns	sāviātus	sāviātūrus	—	—	sāviandus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		sāviandī	sāviandō	sāviandum	sāviandō	sāviātum	sāviātū

References

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

Middle English

Noun

savior

1. Alternative form of saveour