Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1684.salūs on page 1684
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salūs safety
salūs is a Latin Noun that primarily means safety.
Definitions for salūs
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
health, safety, greeting
English derivatives:
salubrious salutary salutation salute salutatorian salutatory
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Personal safety, immunity from hurt ot violence, well-being. (b) safety (of material things, property), freedom from damage. (c) pro ~ute (a formula used in dedicatory inscriptions); bona ~ute (a formula used to obviate the effects of an inauspicious remark).
- 2
Physical well-being (in contrast to illness), health; one's life (as threatened by illness).
- 3
One's life (as liable to forfeiture). (b) immunity from destruction, continued existence, survival.
Sentences with salūs
Latin to English
Cicerō erat cōnsul quī rem pūblicam salūtī suae antepōneret.Compare Cicero was a consul who place the state before his own safety.
Tū mē hortāris ut sim animō magnō et spem salūtis habeam, sed timeō nē sim īnfīrmior.Compare You urge me to be of great courage and to have hope of safety, but I fear that I may be too weak.
Salūs populī suprēma lēx est. (Cicero, De legibus III.8)Compare The safety of the people is the supreme law.
Quis respondeo liberi meus? Ego non possum Milo salus tueor?Compare What answer shall I make to my children? That I was not able to secure the safety of Milo?
Tu senatus auctoritas, salus civitas, totus res publica, provincia praemium vendo.Compare You sold the authority of the senate, the safety of the state, the whole commonwealth, for the bribe of a province.
Declension table for salūs
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | salūs | salūtēs |
| Gen. | salūtis | salūtum |
| Dat. | salūtī | salūtibus |
| Acc. | salūtem | salūtēs |
| Abl. | salūte | salūtibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 137.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1684.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 122.
Bibliography
Allen, Joseph H. Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges: Founded on Comparative Grammar. Edited by James B. Greenough, George L. Kittredge, Albert A. Howard, and Benjamin L. D'Ooge. Boston, MA: Ginn & Company, 1903.
Crystal, David. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 6th ed. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
Francese, Christopher. "Latin Core Vocabulary." Dickinson College Commentaries. Last modified 2014. http://dcc.dickinson.edu/latin-vocabulary-list.
Gildersleeve, Basil L., and Gonzales Lodge. Gildersleeve's Latin Grammar: Third Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. 3rd ed. London, England: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Glare, Peter G.W. Oxford Latin Dictionary. Vols. 1-8. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Krüger, Bernd. "Latin Conjugation Tables." Cactus2000. Accessed May 5, 2023. https://latin.cactus2000.de/index.en.php.
Pierson, Nick. "Sound of Text." Accessed October 26, 2019. https://soundoftext.com.
Wheelock, Frederick M. Wheelock's Latin. 6th ed. Revised by Richard A. LaFleur. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "salūs, salūtis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed December 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/salus-salutis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 137.salūs, salūtis on page 137
