salūtāris e, adj. with comp.
salus,
of wellbeing, healthful, health-giving, wholesome, salutary
: pro salutaribus mortifera conscribere: res (opp.
pestiferae): calor: ars,
of healing
, H.: herbae, O.: hominum generi cultura agrorum est salutaris.— Fig.,
serviceable, beneficial, salutary, advantageous, useful
: litterae: orationem salutarem habere,
L.: civis: nihil est eo melius, nihil salutarius
nobis: ad ortūs puerorum.—Esp., in the phrase, salutaris littera, i.
e.
the letter A
(for absolvo, on the ballots of judges; opp. littera tristis, i. e. C, for
condemno).—As a surname of Jupiter.