salu- +
(Latin: greeting, good health; welfare, health)
Spoken to Claudius by gladiators prior to entering the arena to fight. This may have been a sarcastic salutation.
Suetonius tells us in his Lives of the Caesars that Emperor Claudius (A.D. 41-A.D. 54) so enjoyed these spectacles, he ordered that even those who fell accidentally be put to death. He wanted to watch their faces as they died.
See Ave, Imperator (above) for additional information.
Motto of Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
2. Beneficial to or promoting health or well-being.
3. Good for the health; healthy.
4. Promoting health or well-being; wholesome; for example, "Polluted air is far from being considered salubrious."
2. Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.
2. Wholesomeness; healthfulness; favorableness to the preservation of health; such as, the salubrity of a country or climate.
Motto of the State of Missouri, USA. Cicero wrote in his De Legibus: Salus populi suprema est lex, "The welfare of the people is the supreme law."
2. Characteristics of some beneficial purpose; wholesome.
2. Of value or benefit to someone or something.
2. Healthful, promoting good health.
Usually a speech given by the person with the second highest grade average in a particular graduating class.
2. Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; a greeting.
2. In the military, to pay respect to or to honor by some formal act; such as, by raising the right hand to the side of the headgear, presenting arms, firing cannon, dipping colors, etc.
3. To address with expressions of goodwill, respect, etc.; to greet.
4. To make a bow or other gesture to, as with a greeting, a farewell, or respect.
5. To express respect or praise for; to honor; to commend.
6. Etymology: earlier salue from Latin salutare, "to greet"; literally, "wish health to"; from Latin salus, salutis, "greeting, good health"; related to salvus, "safe".
Motto of Logan College of Chiropractic, Chesterfield, Missouri, USA.
Related "health" word families and articles: Health: Index; Hygeia > hygiene > health; hygieio-, hygiei-; iatro-, -iatrician; sana-, sani-.