## Meanings
1. To save something from being lost, damaged, or destroyed.
2. To rescue something good from a situation that has otherwise failed.
3. The rescue of a ship, its crew, or cargo from a wreck or fire.

## Examples
- They managed to salvage a few photographs from the burnt house.
- A late goal salvaged a draw for the home team.
- The salvage of the sunken cargo took several weeks.

## Derived Forms
- postsalvage
- resalvage
- salvagable
- salvageability
- salvageable
- salvagee
- salvager
- unsalvaged

## Related Forms
- salvation

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: salvatge
- Root: *salvāticus
- Root: silvāticus

## Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”).

## AI Etymology
Salvage is borrowed from Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus (“wild”, literally “of the woods”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe (“mischievous, naughty”). In present-day use, it can mean to save something from being lost, damaged, or destroyed, or to rescue something good from a situation that has otherwise failed. Related forms include salvation. Derived formations include postsalvage, resalvage, salvagable, salvageability, salvageable.

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