salubrious

English

WOTD – 16 July 2006

Etymology

From Latin salūbris (“healthy”) +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /səˈl(j)uː.bɹi.əs/
• (US) enPR: sə-lo͞o'brē-əs, IPA^(key): /səˈlu.bɹi.əs/

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Adjective

salubrious (comparative more salubrious, superlative most salubrious)

1. Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.

   Synonyms: healful, healthful, healthy, salutary

   Antonyms: insalubrious, insalutary

Quotations

• (2001, Francis Forster, Cockles and Mussels, iUniverse →ISBN, page 133)
  Ireland has a mild, genial and salubrious climate, I remember from my geography lessons. Salubrious, my foot! Unless you take salubrious to mean a regular downpour the whole year round, with, in between, a penetrating dampness that'd  ...

Related terms

• salubriously
• salubriousness
• salubrity

Translations

promoting health

• Bulgarian: здравословен (bg) (zdravosloven)
• Catalan: salubre
• Czech: léčivý (cs), zdraví prospěšný
• Dutch: heilzaam (nl)
• Esperanto: sanfavora
• Faroese: heilsugóður, heilsugevandi
• Finnish: terveellinen (fi)
• French: salubre (fr)
• Galician: salubre (gl)
• Georgian: ჯანსაღი (ǯansaɣi), ჯანმრთელი (ǯanmrteli), სასარგებლო (sasargeblo), სამკურნალო (samḳurnalo)
• German: bekömmlich (de), heilsam (de), zuträglich (de), gesundheitsfördernd
• Icelandic: heilsusamlegt
• Italian: salubre (it)
• Latin: salūber
• Macedonian: здрав (zdrav), ле́ковит (lékovit)
• Polish: zdrowy (pl)
• Portuguese: salubre (pt), saudável (pt)
• Romanian: salubru (ro), sănătos (ro)
• Russian: целе́бный (ru) (celébnyj), цели́тельный (ru) (celítelʹnyj), здоро́вый (ru) (zdoróvyj), поле́зный (ru) (poléznyj)
• Spanish: salubre (es)
• Swedish: hälsosam (sv), frisk (sv) (especially when related to air)
• Turkish: sağlığa yararlı

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Translations to be checked

• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} helsebringende