consaluto

Forms

cōnsalūtō (present infinitive cōnsalūtāre, perfect active cōnsalūtāvī, supine cōnsalūtātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin con- + salūtō (“to greet”).^[2][3][1] salūtō is made from salūs (“health, safety”), which de Vaan treats with salvus (“whole, safe”); he traces that to Proto-Italic *salu- (“whole, healthy”) and Proto-Indo-European *slH-u- (“whole”).^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Cicero uses it first, of friends greeting one another most warmly in De oratore and in De re publica, where a man greeted by Scipio and the others sits down next to Laelius.^[3][2]

Semantic evolution

It means to greet, especially of several people greeting one another,^[3][2] and with a predicate to hail someone as something: Cicero says that people greeted a woman not by her stage name but as Volumnia, and Livy has each king hailed as king by his own followers.^[2][5] Lewis & Short note it is frequent in the historians after the Augustan period.^[5] Stelten gives "salute one another" for Church Latin.^[6]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero of friends greeting one another.^[3][2]
• 59 BC–17 AD – Livy of each king hailed by his followers.^[5]
• 1st century AD – Curtius Rufus.^[5]

Meanings

Verb

1. To greet, salute;^[2][5][1][6] (absolute) to exchange greetings.^[2][5][1][6]
2. (with predicate) To hail as.^[2][5]

Word family

• cōnsalūtātiō

Related words

• salūtō
• salūs
• salvus

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g h Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
5. ^ a b c d e f g Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
6. ^ a b c Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson