“health” in Latin

sanitas (state of freedom from disease): valetudo (if by itself, it is mostly, from context = good health, which is bona, prospera, firma valetudo). To take care, or some care, of one’s health, valetudini parcere; valetudinem curare; valetudini tribuere aliquid; habere rationem valetudinis; dare ope ram valetudini. To take great care of one’s health, valetudini suae servire; magnam curam in valetudine tuenda adhibere: for your health’s sake, corporis tuendi causa: to neglect or take no care of one’s health, valetudinem negligere; valetudini parum parcere. Bad health, adversa, aegra, infirma valetudo: your weak health, or weak state of health, ista imbecillitas valetudinis tuae (☞ after curatio, excusatio, excusare, etc., valetuao = “bad health”, just as in “to excuse himself on the ground of his health,” “his health will not suffer him,” etc., it is implied that bad health is meant). To be in good health, bona (prospera, integra, or firma) valetudine esse or uti; prosperitate valetudinis uti; sanitate esse incorrupta, ; valetudine esse firmam; valere (also with bene, commode, recte); belle se habere: to be in excellent health, optima valetudine uti or affectum esse; optime valere; plane belle se habere: not to be in good health, minus commoda, or minus bona valetudine uti; aegrotare (to be sick). In the days of one’s health, bona or integra valetudine: cum valemus. To injure one’s health by the neglect of one’s usual exercise, valetudinem intermissis exercitationibus amittere: I am recovering my health, melior fio valetudine. Health is re-established, valetudo confirmatur: to be in good health, recte valere; bona or integra valetudine esse; prosperitate valetudinis uti: in better health, melius valere (Hor.). To drink anybody’s good health, salutem alicui propinare (Plaut.); *amicum nominatim vocare in bibendo: your good health! bene te! bene tibi! (Vid: Zumpt, § 759): let all drink to the health of Messala! bene Messalam! sua quisque ad pocula dicat (Tiberius, 2, 1, 33): to wish good health (at sneezing), sternutamento salutare: to anybody, salutem alicui imprecari; salvere aliquem jubere: your health! (as a wish at sneezing), bene vertat! or salvere te jubeo! or salutem tibi! (sc. imprecor, after Apul., Met., 2, p. 228, 27: ☞ saluti tuae is wrong; it ought, at all events, to be saluti tibi sc. sit or vertat). He lived to an extreme old age in the enjoyment of excellent health, vixit ad summam senectutem valetudine optima. Robust health, firma valetudo.