salve

salve is a Latin form of salvus, meaning “safe, unharmed”.

It can also be a form of salveo, “be well; (salve, salvete) hello!, greetings!, farewell”. It is the 2nd person singular present active imperative or adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective.

Found 190 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 16.4.4: … uantam diligentiam in valetudinem tuam contuleris, tanti me fieri a te iudicabo. vale, mi Tiro, vale, vale et salve. Lepta tibi salutem dicit et omnes. vale. VII id. Nov. Leucade.

Vergil, Georgics 2.173: Salve, magna parens frugum, Saturnia tellus,

Propertius, Elegiae 4.9.71: Sancte pater salue, cui iam fauet aspera Iuno:

All forms of salvus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.