sanabilis Latin · revision 33433

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=la sānus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [saːˈnaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [saˈnaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sānābilis''' (neuter sānābile); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sānō|-bilis|t1=to heal, cure]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The verb comes from [[m|la|sānus|t=healthy]], which de Vaan traces to [[itc-pro|*sāno-]]; he calls the further reconstruction [[ine-pro|*seh₂-no-]] purely mechanical, and suggests either the root [[m|ine-pro|*seh₂-|t=to tie]], giving a sense “in order”, or a root meaning “to satisfy”.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the mind in the ''Tusculan Disputations'': ''īrācundī sānābilēs'', “irascible men can be cured”.^(Georges 1913)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is a rare but classical word for what can be healed:^(Lewis & Short 1879) a wound in Ovid,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) pain in Celsus, who has the comparative,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) and, figuratively, faults of the mind and character in Cicero and Seneca,^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) who says that whoever comes to a philosopher should go home either healthier or more curable.^(Georges 1913) Ovid has ''nūllīs amor est sānābilis herbīs'', “love cannot be cured by any herbs”.^(Conte 2010) Pliny the Elder uses it actively of snakes whose bites can be cured, saying that asps are the least curable of all.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) In Augustine and Caelius Aurelianus it means wholesome or healing,^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010) and medieval writers used it both for curable and for conducive to health.^(DMLBS) It survives in [[it|sanabile]].^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of curable faults of the mind.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it of wounds and of love.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 14–37 AD – Celsus has the comparative ''sānābilior''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of snakes whose bites can be cured.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it in the sense “healing”.^(Georges 1913)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * Medieval Latin – Used for “conducive to health” in the penitential of Theodore.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # That can be healed, [[m|en|curable]], [[m|en|remediable]], of the body or the mind.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913)

+ # Of a snake, inflicting wounds that can be cured.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' [[m|en|wholesome|alt=Wholesome]], healing.^(Georges 1913)^(Conte 2010)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[īnsānābilis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sānō]]

+ * [[sānus]]

+ * [[sānitās]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}