Salvage
mid 17th century (as a noun denoting payment for saving a ship or its cargo): from French, from medieval Latin salvagium, from Latin salvare ‘to save’. The verb dates from the late 19th century.
wiktionary
From Old French salver (see also save, from a variant form), from Late Latin salvare(“to make safe, secure, save”), from Latin salvus(“safe”) with the English suffix -age.
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From Spanish salvaje, from Catalan salvatge, from Late Latin *salvāticus, alteration of Latin silvāticus(““wild"; literally, "of the woods"”), from silva(“forest", "grove”). Confused false friends; English salvage and Tagalog salbahe(“mischievous, naughty”). [1] [2]
etymonline
salvage (n.)
1640s, "payment for saving a ship from wreck or capture," from French salvage (15c.), from Old French salver "to save" (see save (v.)). The general sense of "the saving of property from danger" is attested from 1878. Meaning "recycling of waste material" is from 1918, from the British effort in World War I.
salvage (v.)
1889, from salvage (n.). Related: Salvaged; salvaging.
