# sauf
## English
### Preposition

sauf
* Obsolete form of save.

### Anagrams

* USAF, aufs, UFAs, Faus, Fasu, fusa

## French
### Etymology

From Old French salv, salf, inherited from Latin salvus. Cognate to Italian and Spanish salvo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sof/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

sauf (feminine sauve, masculine plural saufs, feminine plural sauves)
* safe (free from harm)

#### Related terms

* sain et sauf
* sauver
* sauvetage

### Preposition

sauf
* except, save
    Tout le monde parle français, sauf moi.Everyone speaks French, except me.
** 2021, Angèle, On s'habitue:On s’habitue toujours à tout, sauf, peut-être, à perdre ceux qu’on aime.We always get used to everything, except, perhaps, to losing those we love.
* excluding, barring

#### Usage notes

* If sauf is preceded by and linked to a verb with a complement introduced by a preposition, that preposition must be repeated after sauf. One may use certain adverbs (e.g. peut-être) between sauf and the repeated preposition.
** Ça ne sert à rien sauf à compliquer les choses.That doesn't do anything except complicate things.
** Quelques-uns de ces détails échapperont à tous les observateurs sauf peut-être aux plus perspicaces.A few of these details escaped all of the observers except perhaps the most perceptive ones.

#### Derived terms

* sauf erreur
* sauf si
* sauf votre respect

### References

* ↑ Picoche, Jacqueline with Jean-Claude Rolland (2009) Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert
* ↑ “sauf” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.

### Further reading

* “sauf”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zaʊ̯f/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

sauf
* singular imperative of saufen

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* saaf, saf, safe, saff, saffe, salfe, salve, save, sauff, sawe, sawf, sayfe

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sauf, from Latin salvus, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂wós.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sau̯f/, /sa(ː)f/, /sa(ː)v/, /ˈsa(ː)və/

### Adjective

sauf
* Unharmed; safe from damage or ill effect:
** Unaffected by or safe from injury.
** Untarnished, undamaged, whole; well-kept.
* Safe, having security or protection:
** Safe, protected; unable to be harmed or hurt
** (religion) Undamned or saved; delivered from torment.
** Undiminished, having full effect or force, legally effective.
* Having concern for, with care or respectfulness towards.
* (rare) Guaranteed, ensured, effected.
* (rare) Well-meaning, kind, having good intentions.

#### Related terms

* savable
* savacioun
* savegard
* savely
* savement
* saven
* savenape
* savenes
* saveour
* savete
* savynge

#### Descendants

* English: safe
* Scots: safe, sauf

#### References

* “sauf, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

### Preposition

sauf
* But, except (for), other than, disregarding, save.

#### Descendants

* English: save

#### References

* “sauf, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

### Conjunction

sauf
* But, rather, on the contrary.
* Although, but, nevertheless, however.

#### References

* “sauf, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

### Adverb

sauf
* In a safe or secure manner; safely.

#### References

* “sauf, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-29.

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin salvus (“safe, well, unharmed, sound, saved, alive”), from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“integrate, whole”).

### Adjective

sauf m
* (Jersey) safe