salivate

salivate

English

WOTD – 28 August 2006

Etymology

From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪveɪt/

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Verb

salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)

1. (intransitive) To produce saliva.
2. (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.

   He's been salivating over the latest model sports car for a while now.

Related terms

• saliva
• salivary
• salivation

Translations

to produce saliva

Armenian: թքարտադրել (tʿkʿartadrel) Catalan: salivar (ca) Czech: slinit Dutch: kwijlen (nl) French: saliver (fr) German: speicheln (de), geifern (de), sabbern (de) Hungarian: nyáladzik (hu) Icelandic: slefa (is) Italian: salivare (it), sbavare (it)

Kurdish: tif kirin (ku) Maori: koe (mi), mōwaiwai Polish: wydzielać ślinę, ślinić się (pl) Portuguese: salivar (pt) Romanian: saliva (ro) Russian: вызыва́ть слюнотечение (vyzyvátʹ sljunotečenije), выделя́ть слюну (vydeljátʹ sljunu) Spanish: salivar (es) Walloon: gleter (wa), blefer

to show eager anticipation

Dutch: watertanden (nl) French: saliver (fr), baver (fr) German: geifern (de), keifen (de) Italian: sbavare (it)

Polish: ślinić się (pl) Romanian: saliva (ro) Swedish: dregla (sv)

See also

• drool

Further reading

• salivate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• salivate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• salivate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• aestival, availest, æstival

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Italian

Verb

salivate

1. second-person plural imperfect of salire
2. second-person plural present of salivare
3. second-person plural imperative of salivare

Anagrams

• esaltavi, lisavate, salviate

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Latin

Verb

salīvāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of salīvō