/sof/
Translation
except, unless
Word origin
From Latin salvus ('safe, unharmed'). As a preposition meaning 'except', it derives from the absolute use salvo ('the thing being safe, excepted').
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- salvus
- English cognates
- safe, salvage, save
Examples
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Everyone was there except him.
pleut .
I will come unless it pours with rain.
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He eats everything except fish and meat.
Tous ' .
All the shops are open except the one across the street.
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Nobody understood the joke except my brother.
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