savior

== English == === Alternative forms === saviour (UK) === Etymology === First attested in 1300 as Middle English saveour, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvātor, from salvō. Doublet of salvator. Displaced native Old English hǣlend. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈseɪvjɚ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈseɪvjə/ Rhymes: -eɪvjə(ɹ) === Noun === savior (plural saviors) (American spelling) A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm. (medicine) A child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister", etc.) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Arviso, varios == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.wi.ɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈsaː.vi.or] === Verb === sāvior (present infinitive sāviārī, perfect active sāviātus sum); first conjugation, deponent alternative form of suāvior ==== Conjugation ==== === References === “savior”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers == Middle English == === Noun === savior alternative form of saveour