sanus

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsanus/

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• Rhymes: -anus
• Syllabification: sa‧nus

Verb

sanus

1. conditional of sani

Irish

Noun

sanus m (genitive singular sanuis, nominative plural sanuis)

1. obsolete spelling of sanas

Mutation

Mutated forms of sanus

radical	lenition	eclipsis
sanus	shanus after an, tsanus	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sānos, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂-no-, from *seh₂- (“to satisfy”) (or perhaps *seh₂- (“to tie”)).

Alternative theories derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”), and compare it to Ancient Greek σῶς (sôs), Dutch zoen (“kiss”) and gezond (“healthy”), German Sühne (“atonement”) and gesund (“healthy”).

Others, such as Alberto Nocentini, consider the term an isolate, with no extra-Italic cognates.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsaː.nus]

Adjective

sānus (feminine sāna, neuter sānum, comparative sānior, adverb sānē); first/second-declension adjective

1. sound in body, healthy, whole, well

   Synonyms: saluber, salvus, validus, integer, intactus, sospes, incolumis, sollus

   Antonyms: aeger, miser, fessus, īnfirmus, affectus, languidus

2. sound in mind, sane, rational, well
   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 912:

     CRĪTŌ: Sānun es? or, Sānusne es?

     CRITO: Are you sane? or, Are you in your right mind?
     (“sanu-” plus the enclitic particle “-n” or “-ne” introduces a question.)

3. (of style) correct, sensible, discreet, sober, chaste

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sānus	sāna	sānum		sānī	sānae	sāna
genitive	sānī	sānae	sānī		sānōrum	sānārum	sānōrum
dative	sānō	sānae	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
• Emilian: san
• English: sane
• Esperanto: sana
• Franco-Provençal: san
• French: sain
• Friulian: san
• Galician: san
• Ido: sana
• Italian: sano
• Occitan: san
• Portuguese: são
• Romanian: sănătos
• Romansh: saun, san
• Sardinian: sanu
• Sicilian: sanu
• Spanish: sano
• Venetan: san, sano

See also

• vērus

Further reading

• “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^[2], 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