salus

See also: sāļus

Esperanto

Verb

salus

1. conditional of sali

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *salūts, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, completed”).

Cognates

From PIE: Faliscan 𐌔𐌀𐌋𐌖𐌄𐌔 (salues) and doublet of salvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.luːs/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.lus/, [ˈsäːlus]

Noun

salūs f (genitive salūtis); third declension

1. safety; security

   Synonyms: sēcūritās, impūnitās

2. health, well-being, welfare

   Synonyms: sānitās, valētūdō

   Antonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, incommodum

   Salus populi suprema lex esto ― let the welfare of the people be the supreme law

3. salvation, deliverance
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.354:

     Ūna salūs victīs: nūllam spērāre salūtem.

     The only salvation for the conquered: for no one to hope for salvation.
     (In other words, a sense of impending doom can impel bold actions, which in turn could unexpectedly alter the presumed outcome.)

4. greeting, salutation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	salūs	salūtēs
genitive	salūtis	salūtum
dative	salūtī	salūtibus
accusative	salūtem	salūtēs
ablative	salūte	salūtibus
vocative	salūs	salūtēs

Derived terms

• prō salūte Imperātōris
• salūber
• salūbritās
• salūbriter
• salūtābundus
• salūtāris
• salūtātiō
• salūtātor
• salūtātōrius
• salūtātrīx
• salūtifer
• salūtiger
• salūtō

 

Related terms

• salvē
• salveō
• salvus

 

Descendants

• Asturian: salú
• Catalan: salut
• French: salut
• Friulian: salût
• Italian: salute
• Norman: salut
• Old Galician-Portuguese: saude
  • Galician: saúde
  • Portuguese: saúde
• Piedmontese: salute
• Romanian: sărut, salut (borrowing)
• Sardinian: saludu, saluru, salutu
• Spanish: salud

Further reading

• “salus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• salus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae
    
  • a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur
    
  • to take measures for one's safety; to look after one's own interests: saluti suae consulere, prospicere
    
  • after mutual greeting: salute data (accepta) redditaque
    
  • to further the common weal: saluti rei publicae non deesse
    
  • to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) to risk one's life: salutem, vitam suam in discrimen offerre (not exponere)
    
  • (ambiguous) to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to deliver, rescue a person: salutem alicui afferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to effect a person's deliverance: salutem expedire
    
  • (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) I drink your health: propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem)
    
  • (ambiguous) to greet a person: salutem alicui dicere, impertire, nuntiare
    
  • (ambiguous) Cicero sends cordial greetings to Atticus: Cicero Attico S.D.P. (salutem dicit plurimam)
    
  • (ambiguous) my best wishes for your welfare: tibi plurimam salutem
    
  • (ambiguous) remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14)
    
  • (ambiguous) to add to one's letter good wishes to some one: adscribere alicui salutem (Att. 5. 20. 9)
    
  • (ambiguous) to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to beg for mercy from the conqueror: salutem petere a victore
    
  • (ambiguous) to seek safety in flight: fuga salutem petere
    
• “salus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• salus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• “salus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray