sanus
Esperanto
Verb
sanus
- conditional of sani
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”). Akin to Ancient Greek σῶς (sôs), Dutch zoen (“kiss”) and gezond (“healthy”), German Sühne (“atonement”) and gesund (“healthy”). According to Alberto Nocentini only with Italic cognates.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsaː.nus/, [ˈs̠äːnʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.nus/, [ˈsäːnus]
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Adjective
sānus (feminine sāna, neuter sānum, comparative sānior, adverb sānē); first/second-declension adjective
- sound in body, healthy, whole, well
- Synonyms: saluber, salvus, validus, integer, intactus, sospes, incolumis, sollus
- Antonyms: aeger, miser, fessus, īnfirmus, languidus
- sound in mind, sane, well
- (of style) correct, sensible, discreet, sober, chaste
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | sānus | sāna | sānum | sānī | sānae | sāna | |
Genitive | sānī | sānae | sānī | sānōrum | sānārum | sānōrum | |
Dative | sānō | sānō | sānīs | ||||
Accusative | sānum | sānam | sānum | sānōs | sānās | sāna | |
Ablative | sānō | sānā | sānō | sānīs | |||
Vocative | sāne | sāna | sānum | sānī | sānae | sāna |
Derived terms
- īnsānus
- sānābilis
- sānātiō
- sānātor
- sānātōrius
- sānē
- sānitās
- sāniter
- sānō
- vēsānus
Descendants
- Aromanian: sãn
- Asturian: sanu
- Catalan: sa
- English: sane
- Esperanto: sana
- French: sain
- Friulian: san
- Galician: san
- Ido: sana
- Italian: sano
- Occitan: san
- Portuguese: são
- Romanian: sănătos
- Romansch: saun, san
- Sardinian: sanu
- Sicilian: sanu
- Spanish: sano
- Venetian: san, sano
See also
- vērus
References
- “sano” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
- “sanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sanus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
- to be of sound mind: sanae mentis esse
- are you in your right mind: satin (= satisne) sanus es?
- (ambiguous) but this is not to the point: sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
- sound, unimpaired senses: sensus sani, integri, incorrupti
- “sano” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN