Etymograph

English

sanitate

Sanitate comes from Latin sanitas ‘health, propriety’, and goes back to 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‘healthy, rational, chaste’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanitas2‘health, propriety’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1893sanitate2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin sanus
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sanitate
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1893, George Bernard Shaw: “Nor am I prepared to accept the verdict of…”.

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 sanitate‘healthy, rational, chaste’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsanitasWiktionary, English sanitate‘health, propriety’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1893sanitateWiktionary, English sanitate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1893, George Bernard Shaw: “Nor am I prepared to accept the verdict of…”

Linked words

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

sad, secular, saturation, insatiable, hadron, sade, satiety, saturate, satiate, 19 more

through Latin sanus ‘healthy, rational, chaste’

insane, sane, 7 more

Today it means

verb To sanitize.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sanitate”; 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- / sanitate

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