Etymograph

English

sanable

Sanable comes from Latin sanabilis ‘curable’, from sanare ‘to heal’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-1‘to satisfy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-no-1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānos1‘healthy’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanus2‘sound, healthy’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanare2‘to heal’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanabilis2‘curable’
  7. Englishtodaysanable2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin sanus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sanable

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-Wiktionary, Latin sanus‘to satisfy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-no-Wiktionary, Latin sanusreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānosWiktionary, Latin sanus‘healthy’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanusWiktionary, English sanable‘sound, healthy’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanareWiktionary, English sanable‘to heal’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanabilisWiktionary, English sanable‘curable’
  7. EnglishtodaysanableWiktionary, English sanable

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satisfy’

sad, secular, saturation, hadron, sade, insatiable, saturate, satiety, satiate, 17 more

through Latin sanus ‘sound, healthy’

insane, sane, sanity, sanitary, 5 more

Today it means

adj Capable of being healed or cured; remediable.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sanable”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin sanus. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- / sanable

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