salvia from salvu, the second case you menton
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 6:19 PM david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Some of you have Latin. Perhaps you can help me towards enlightenment.
We wondered after lunch yesterday why sage the herb and sage meaning wisdom
are yoked together in English.
Once you get past the pages of varieties, here you’ll find an assertion
that “sage” comes from the Latin, salvere, for “save,” as in saving lives.
http://www.dweckdata.com/Published_papers/Salvia.pdf
But a different site here says that sage the herb comes from Latin salvia/
salvus meaning healthy, whole, well-kept.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/sage
Both sites write as if that’s the truth. Seems to one who doesn’t know
Latin, that’s a bit of a difference.
Sage meaning wise supposedly comes from the Latin sapius or sapere,
meaning to have good taste.
Adding to my confusion salvia offcinalis, says Wikipedia, has been known
by six different names since 1940. Is that wise?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
