salvia

Other forms of salvia

plural

salvias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about salvia

What does salvia mean?

salvia means "any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb".

How many syllables are in salvia?

salvia has 3 syllables: sal-vi-a. The stress falls on "sal". In IPA it is /ˈsælviə/.

What is another word for salvia?

Close synonyms include sage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is salvia a common word?

salvia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.