PRESERVE Copy link • PRESERVEconservare: servare (e.g., rem familiarem): sustinere: sustentare (e.g., one’s health): tueri (to watch, to look to anything, to keep in repair). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tueri et conservare: alere (by nursing or nourishing; then in general). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alere et sustentare; sustentare et alere. To preserve one’s health, valetudinem tueri: to preserve anybody’s life, aliquem (integrum) conservare: alicui saluti esse; salutis auctorem esse alicui (general term for saving one’s life); alicui sanitatem restituere (as a physician). Of fruit, condire; *saccharum incoquere alicui rei (after Plin., 34, 17, 48): *saccharo condire.