salubritas Latin · revision 34073

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=234–149 BC, Cato|origins=ine-pro *slH-u-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [saˈɫuː.brɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [saˈluː.bri.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salūbritās''' ''f'' (genitive salūbritātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|salūber|-tās|t1=healthy, wholesome]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010) De Vaan derives that adjective, like [[salus|alt=salūs]], from a stem going back to [[itc-pro|*salu-|t=whole, healthy]] and [[ine-pro|*slH-u-|t=whole]], also in [[salvus]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Cato,^(de Vaan 2008) who writes of the good and wholesome qualities of Pythagoras' cabbage.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is the quality of promoting health, wholesomeness, and healthy conditions: Varro says that where the place is not healthy, farming is a gamble with the owner's life.^(OLD 2012) By metonymy it is a means to health, as the simple old remedy of poppy and honey in Pliny the Elder.^(OLD 2012) It is also good health: Hirtius has someone travel only as far as was thought enough for a change of air for his health.^(OLD 2012) Of policies it is soundness or benefit, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Cicero also uses it of the signs of health and of pestilence read in the entrails of victims.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin glosses it health.^(Stelten 1995) English [[m|en|salubrity]] dates from the early 15th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato of a wholesome cabbage.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of healthy farms.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of soundness and of signs of health.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Hirtius of good health.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''salubrity''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|wholesomeness|alt=Wholesomeness]], healthiness; healthy conditions; a means to health.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Good [[m|en|health]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Soundness, benefit.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salūber]]

+ * [[salus|alt=salūs]]

+ * [[salvus]]

+ * [[en|salubrity]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}