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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [kõː.saˈɫuː.toː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [kon.saˈluː.to][1]

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

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