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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Cato|origins=la salūs}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [saˈɫuː.bɛr]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [saˈluː.ber]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''salūber''' or salūbris (feminine salūbris, neuter salūbre, superlative salūberrimus, adverb salūbriter); third-declension three-termination adjective or third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is inherited from [[itc-pro|*salūzris]], from *salūzlis, from the stem of [[salūs]] “health, safety” with the suffix -lis, dissimilated to ⟨r⟩ as in [[celeber]] and [[fūnebris]].^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)^(Etymonline) The masculine nominative has two forms, ending in ⟨-ber⟩ or ⟨-bris⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's first citation is Cato, of what is healthful.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Cato 234–149 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant conducive to health, wholesome, salubrious, as Cicero's healthy site, and of seasons healthy.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Of the body it meant healthy, sound, as in Sallust.^(OLD 2012) Figuratively it meant salutary, beneficial, as in Cicero.^(OLD 2012) Varro and Ovid use the form ''salūber''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) Döderlein says [[salūs]] is existence and safety, [[sānitās]] health.^(Döderlein 1874)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant wholesome, useful, healthful, salutary.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in French, Italian and Spanish ''salubre''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|salubrious]] was borrowed in the 1540s.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of healthful things.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of a healthy site and salutary measures.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust uses it of a healthy body.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 1540s – English ''salubrious'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Adjective===
+ # Healthful, wholesome, [[m|en|salubrious]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(of the body)'' [[m|en|Healthy]], sound.^(OLD 2012)
+ # Salutary, beneficial.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[īnsalūbris]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[salūs]]
+ * [[salvus]]
+ * [[en|salubrious]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}