safe

English

/seɪf/

adj
Definitions
  • Not in danger; out of harm's reach.
  • Free from risk.
  • Providing protection from danger; providing shelter.
  • (baseball) When a batter successfully reaches first base, or when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base or returns to the base he last occupied; not out.
  • Properly secured.
  • (used after a noun) Not susceptible to a specified source of harm.
  • (UK) Great, cool, awesome, respectable;
  • (slang) Lenient, usually describing a teacher that is easy-going.
  • Reliable; trusty.
  • Cautious.
  • (programming) Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English sauf derived from Old French sauf derived from Latin salvus (safe, well, whole, unharmed, saved, alive, sound) derived from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (whole, completed, every, unhurt, safe and sound, integrate), *solh₂- (whole, completed, every, unhurt, safe and sound, integrate).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*solh₂-

Gloss

whole, completed, every, unhurt, safe and sound, integrate

Concept
Semantic Field

Spatial relations

Ontological Category

Property

Kanji

毎

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms