salve: [OE] The central semantic element of modern English salve is ‘healing’, but its underlying etymological meaning is ‘oily substance’. It goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *salbō, which had relatives in Greek élpos ‘oil’ and Sanskrit srpras ‘greasy’. The Germanic from has evolved into German salbe and Dutch zalf as well as English salve.
salve (n.)
Old English sealf "healing ointment," from West Germanic *salbo- "oily substance" (cognates: Old Saxon salba, Middle Dutch salve, Dutch zalf, Old High German salba, German salbe "ointment"), from PIE *solpa-, from root *selp- "fat, butter" (cognates: Greek elpos "fat, oil," Sanskrit sarpis "melted butter"). The figurative sense of "something to soothe wounded pride, etc." is from 1736.
salve (v.1)
Old English sealfian "anoint (a wound) with salve," from Proto-Germanic *salbojanan (cognates: Dutch zalven, German salben, Gothic salbon "to anoint"), from the root of salve (n.). Figurative use from c. 1200. Related: Salved; salving.
salve (v.2)
"to save from loss at sea," 1706, back-formation from salvage (n.) or salvable. Related: Salved; salving.
例文
1. After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.
大いに食べた後、彼女は1週間かけて節食して自分を慰めた。
2.I give myself treats and justify them to salve my conscience.
私はいつも自分をねぎらい、そして自分の良心を少し安心させるための言葉を探しています。
3.This a salve containing menthol.
ペパーミントを含む軟膏。
4.Administer the salve to the sunburned area with a cotton swab.