salu-
(Latin: greeting, good health; welfare, health)
1. Expressing or conveying greetings.
2. Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; a greeting.
2. Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; a greeting.
salute (verb), salutes; saluted; saluting
1. To promote the welfare and safety of; to benefit; to gratify.
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".
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".
Studio optimae doctrinae et saluti sanitatis. (Latin motto)
Translation: "[Dedicated] to the pursuit of educational excellence and the preservation of health."
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-.
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