Etymograph

English

salubrious

Salubrious comes from Latin salūber ‘healthy’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- ‘whole, completed’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*solh₂-‘whole, completed’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*salūtsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*salūs‘health, well-being, welfare’reconstructed
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalūberas salūbris‘healthy’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2001salubrious

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*solh₂-‘whole, completed’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*salūtsreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*salūs‘health, well-being, welfare’reconstructed
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalūberas salūbris‘healthy’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2001salubrious

Earliest quotation: 2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels: “Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I…”

Formed from -ous

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- ‘whole, completed’

sold, save, safe, solid, holocaust, sol, sage, salvation, salvage, xu, savior, sou, salvo, salve, salvia, 30 more

through Latin *salūs ‘health, well-being, welfare’

salute, salutary, salutation, 5 more

Today it means

adj Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- / salubrious

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