Meaning
health, sanitary
- health, healthcare
- sanitary, hygienic
In a sentence
La crisi sanitaria ha colpito molte famiglie.
The health crisis affected many families.
Hai già rinnovato la tessera sanitaria?
Have you already renewed your health card?
Il servizio sanitario non ha risposto subito.
The health service didn't respond right away.
Word forms (4)
| Word | Word forms |
|---|---|
| sanitario | masculine · singular |
| sanitaria | feminine · singular |
| sanitari | masculine · plural |
| sanitarie | feminine · plural |
Usage notes
- Often appears after a noun in fixed phrases: servizio sanitario, tessera sanitaria, emergenza sanitaria.
- For people, sanitario usually means healthcare-related: personale sanitario, operatore sanitario; not a general word for healthy.
- To mean hygienic/clean, igienico is often more natural in everyday contexts than sanitario.