salvo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sudden outburst of cheers

   There was a salvo of approval.

Simplified etymology

Salvo entered English in the late 16th century through Italian and is traced to the Roman greeting salve. That greeting belongs to the same Latin word family concerned with health and well-being as salute.

An alteration from 1719 of salva (“simultaneous discharge of guns”) (1591) from Latin salva (“salute, volley”) (compare French salve, also from Italian), from Latin salve (“hail”), the usual Roman greeting, imperative of salvere (“to be in good health”).

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