salvia

Borrowed from Latin salvia (“sage”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælvɪə/

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salvia (plural salvias)

1. A plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage.
   • 2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times‎:

     But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches.

• red salvia

• Salvia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Salvia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
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• Alavis, Avilas, Slavia, Valais, avails, saliva

Borrowed from Swedish salvia, ultimately from Latin salvia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑlʋiɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑlʋiɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑlʋiɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sal‧vi‧a

salvia

1. sage, Salvia officinalis (herb)
2. sage (this plant used in cooking)
3. sage (plant of the genus Salvia)

• myskisalvia
• valkosalvia

• silava, slaavi

From Latin salvia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vja/
• Rhymes: -alvja
• Hyphenation: sàl‧via

salvia f (plural salvie)

1. sage

• lisava, salavi, saliva, salvai, vasali

From salvus (“well, unharmed”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.u̯i.a/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪u̯iä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.vi.a/, [ˈsälviä]

salvia f (genitive salviae); first declension

1. sage

First-declension noun.

• “salvia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• salvia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• salvia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

• saliva

• salvien

salvia m or f

1. definite feminine singular of salvie

From Latin salvia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalbja/ [ˈsal.β̞ja]
• Rhymes: -albja
• Syllabification: sal‧via

salvia f (plural salvias)

1. sage

• “salvia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• saliva