saludable

/saluˈdable/ · B1 · adj

healthy

🥗🍎 salud (health, the Spanish toast!) + -able = health-able, healthful

From Latin salus, health, also the root of English salutary. Spaniards say ¡Salud! when they clink glasses. Add -able and you get something that is good for your health: comida saludable, healthy food.

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