salubriter Latin · revision 34725

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=la salūber}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salūbriter''' (comparative salūbrius, superlative salūberrimē)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|salūber|-ter|t1=healthy, wholesome]].^(OLD 2012) De Vaan explains [[m|la|salūber]] as presupposing a verb from the stem of [[m|la|salūs|t=well-being]], ultimately from [[itc-pro|*salu-|t=whole, healthy]] and [[ine-pro|*slH-u-|t=whole]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest example is a joke in Plautus: asked how he is, a character answers that he is starving, “and not at all healthily”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cicero asks where old age could cool itself in the shade more healthily, Columella says barley feeds a man more wholesomely than bad wheat, and Pliny the Elder recommends a plant that removes bile most healthily when taken with mead.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) From “wholesomely” it came to mean “profitably, to good effect”: Livy writes that a war could be prolonged to advantage, and Velleius of laws passed beneficially.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Pliny the Younger uses it of buying a small farm cheaply.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

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+ British medieval Latin also used it for “safely”, of people returning home unharmed.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it in a joke about starving.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the comparative of cooling oneself in the shade.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of prolonging a war to advantage.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses the superlative of a remedy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a way good for the [[m|en|health]], [[m|en|wholesomely]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|profitably|alt=Profitably]], to good effect; at a good price, [[m|en|cheaply]].^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' [[m|en|safely|alt=Safely]].^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salūber]]

+ * [[salūs]]

+ * [[salvus]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The OLD and Pliny's text give the superlative as ''salūberrimē'',^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) while Wiktionary has ''salūbrissimē''.^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}