PRONUNCIATION:

(SAL-yuh-ter-ee) 

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Beneficial; useful; remedial.
2. Healthful.

ETYMOLOGY:

Via French salutaire, or directly from Latin salutaris, from salut-, stem of salus- (health). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole). A few other words derived from this root are salute, safe, salvage, solemn, and save. Earliest documented use: 1490.

USAGE:

“To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.”
Novelist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963).