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salutation
late 14c., from O.Fr.
salutacion
, from L.
salutationem
(nom.
salutatio
), from
salutatus
, pp. of
salutare
"to greet" (see
salute
). As a word of greeting (eliptical for "I offer salutation") it is recorded from 1530s.