Meanings (ES + gloss)
salvo que
Used to introduce a clause, phrase, verb infinitive, adverb or other non-noun complement forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
I never made fun of her except teasingly.
You look a bit like my sister, except (that) she has longer hair.
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excepto • exceptuando • menos • salvo • zafo
Used to introduce an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
Except that he is wearing polka-dot drawers, he is buck naked.
There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
excepcionar • exceptuar
To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
I find most people annoying — present company excepted, of course!
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