Etymograph

English

sanation

Sanation comes from Latin sānātiō ‘a healing’, from sānō ‘heal, cure’, and perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- ‘to satiate’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-1‘to satiate’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānos2‘healthy’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānus2‘sound in body, healthy, whole, well’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānō2‘heal, cure’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānātiō3‘a healing’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sanacion3
  7. Englishtodaysanation3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *sānos
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin sanatio
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English sanation

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₂-Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *sānos‘to satiate’uncertain
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sānosWiktionary, Latin sanatio‘healthy’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānusWiktionary, Latin sanatio‘sound in body, healthy, whole, well’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānōWiktionary, Latin sanatio‘heal, cure’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsānātiōWiktionary, English sanation‘a healing’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500sanacionWiktionary, English sanation
  7. EnglishtodaysanationWiktionary, English sanation

Linked words

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

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

through Latin sānus ‘sound in body, healthy, whole, well’

insane, sane, sanity, sanitary, 5 more

Today it means

noun Act of healing or curing.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sanation”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Italic *sānos, Latin sanatio. 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- / sanation

Shirt and support for this word