sanitas Latin · revision 9956

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la sānus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈsaː.nɪ.taːs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈsaː.ni.tas]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sānitās''' ''f'' (genitive sānitātis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|sānus|-tās|t1=healthy, sane]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan reconstructs ⟨sānus⟩ as [[itc-pro|*sāno-]], mechanically [[ine-pro|*seh₂-no-]], and suggests it may be from a root “to tie” (“in place, in order”) or from the root “to satisfy” of [[satis]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is Plautus, of health.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant healthy condition, health of body; from Cicero soundness of mind, sanity, good sense, as in ''ad sānitātem redīre'' “to come to one's senses”; and in rhetoric the soundness of a style free of faults.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it means soundness, health, sanity, and Medieval Latin used it for a miraculous cure.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''sanity'' (early 15th century, first “health”) is from it, and it survives as French ''santé'', Italian ''sanità'' and Romanian ''sănătate''.^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it of health.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of soundness of mind and of style.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English ''sanity'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|health|alt=Health]], soundness of body.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|sanity|alt=Sanity]], good sense.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(rhetoric)'' Soundness of style.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A miraculous [[m|en|cure]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[*sānitōsus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sānus]]

+ * [[sānō]]

+ * [[en|sanity]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Isidore of Seville explained ''sānitās'' as the wholeness of the body, named “as if from the state of the blood” (''sanguis'').^(Isidore)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}