preserve (v.) Copy link Outline I. To save1. servo, 1 (to save in a time of danger)2. tueor, 2II. To conserve • preserve (v.): I. To save: 1. servo, 1 (to save in a time of danger): v. to save. More adequately expr. by comp. conservo, 1 (to keep in security): to p. and increase one's property, rem familiarem conservare, augere, Cic. Off. 2, 24, 87 (where servare could not stand): to p. a tree, as an omen of victory, arborem c., ut omen victoriae, Suet. Aug. 94, ad fin.: Liv. 2. tueor, 2: v. to defend, maintain. Join: tueri et conservare, Cic. Man. 5, 12. Phr.: to p. the allies in safety, socios salvos praestare, ib. 18, 55: to p. (hold, retain) life and reputation, vitam et famam obtinere, id. R. Am. 17, fin.: to p. (keep hold of) one's friends by treating them with respect, amicos observantia retinere, id. Quint. 18, fin.: so, amicos retinere servareque, Hor. S. 1, 1, 89. II. To conserve: condio, 4: to p. olives, oleas c., Cato R. R. 117, sqq.: Col. Mode of p.ing, condītura: Col. 12, 47, sqq.: fit for p.ing, condītivus: Col. 1, 59, init. (c. mala).
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.