salutiferous

salutiferous

English

Etymology

From Latin salūtifer (“healthy, health-giving”) +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /saljuːˈtɪfəɹəs/

Adjective

salutiferous (comparative more salutiferous, superlative most salutiferous)

1. (now rare) Conducive to good health; healthy.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], OCLC 222263967:

     innumerable auxiliatory powers, all of them salutiferous

   • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford 2008, p. 421:

     [W]hen warm water is impregnated with salutiferous substances, it may produce great effects as a bath.

2. Conducive to safety or salvation.

Translations

healthy or health-giving

Dutch: heilzaam (nl) German: heilbringend (de)