salvo/ˈsælvəʊ/salvo means A surname from Italian.salvo is pronounced /ˈsælvəʊ/.EtymologyItalian, Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan (Salvó) surname, all from the adjective salvo (“safe, saved”), or from its Latin source salvus (“safe”), found in names like Salvus and Salvone.nameA surname from Italian.A census-designated place in Dare County, North Carolina, United States.nounAn exception; a reservation; an excuse.“1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike They admit […] salvos, cautions, and reservations.”A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.““Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of ”Any volley, as in an argument or debate.“It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.”The combined cheers of a crowd.verbTo discharge weapons in a salvo.