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salvia

salvia · f

the herb sage

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Where it lives

Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

1. salvĭa — Lewis & Short

salvĭa, ae, f.,

I the herb sage, Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147; 26, 6, 17, § 31.

2. salvia — Walde–Hofmann

salvia, -ae f. ,Salbei* (seit Plin., rom.; daraus entl. ahd. salbeia usw.; vgl. zur Bed. [,Heilpflanze*] alb. megaster ,Salbei* aus *medieäster, Jokl L.-k. U. 2111.7): wohl als ,heilende* zu salous (Vanicek 299, Ernout-Meillet? 802). Vetter RE. XII 526 hält wenig wrach. die Vbdg. mit saleus nur für volksetymologisch und stellt es zu saliunca „Baldrian“. 472 salvus. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. salvia, p. 1377]

In the wild

salvia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.6.p2
salviam Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 22.25.p15
salvia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.22.p79
Saluiam Suetonius, Divus Augustus 69.2
salvia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.26.p17

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. saluia (scan p. 615; entry #10108).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. salvia (scan pp. 1377-1378; entry #2402). Root candidates: *me-.

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