SALVIFIC

PRONUNCIATION: (sal-VIF-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Having the power to save or redeem.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin salvus (safe). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which also gave us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, solicitous, solicitude, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1591.
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SAL' VI-IC - Room 6-99 in the Rome Hilton

SOLVIFIC - genius at working out problems

SALVIAFIC - like a plant in the largest genus of the sage family Lamiaceae