sanitary

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

19th century, borrowed from French sanitaire, formed from Latin sanitas (“health”). Analysable as sanity + -ary.

Your sanitary department is a revolutionary invention. — Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
=sanear=, to drain, to make sanitary; to heal. — The Spanish American Reader, Ernesto Nelson
The Approaches to New Orleans.--A Stirring Street.--Sanitary Improvements.--Journalistic Achievements.--Cisterns and Wells. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain

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