saliva

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A learned borrowing from Latin salīva (“spittle”), replacing or merging with Middle English salive, salve (“saliva”), from the same Latin source. Further origin uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”), cognate with Old English salu (“dark, dusky”). More at sallow.

• enPR: sə-līʹ-və, IPA^(key): /səˈlaɪvə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: sa‧li‧va
• Rhymes: -aɪvə

saliva (countable and uncountable, plural salivas or salivae or salivæ)

2. (physiology) A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.

   Synonyms: spit, spittle

• salivation

• drool
• sputum

• Alavis, Avilas, Salvia, Slavia, Valais, avails, salvia

Borrowed from Latin salīva. First attested in the 14th century.^[1]

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saliva f (plural salives)

1. saliva

• salivar

• “saliva” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “saliva” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “saliva” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

saliva

1. inflection of salivar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From salivo +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: sa‧li‧va

saliva

1. salivary

• IPA^(key): /sa.li.va/
• Homophones: salivas, salivât

saliva

1. third-person singular past historic of saliver

• lavais, valais, valsai

• IPA^(key): /saˈli.va/
• Rhymes: -iva
• Hyphenation: sa‧lì‧va

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saliva

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From Latin salīva.

• scialiva

saliva f (plural salive)

1. (physiology) saliva, spittle, spit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

saliva

1. inflection of salivare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

saliva

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of salire

• Salvia, lisava, salavi, salvai, salvia, vasali

Unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *solH- (compare Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, English sallow, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”)).^[1] May alternatively be of independent expressive/onomatopoeic origin; compare Ancient Greek σίαλον (síalon).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /saˈliː.u̯a/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /saˈli.va/,

salīva f (genitive salīvae); first declension

1. spittle, saliva

First-declension noun.

• salīvō

• “saliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “saliva”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• saliva in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “saliva”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Hyphenation: sa‧li‧va

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saliva

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Borrowed from Latin salīva.

saliva f (plural salivas)

1. saliva, spittle (liquid secreted into the mouth)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

saliva

1. inflection of salivar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French saliver, from Latin salivare.

a saliva (third-person singular present salivează, past participle salivat) 1st conj.

1. to salivate

saliva f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of salivă

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• IPA^(key): /saˈliba/

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• Rhymes: -iba
• Syllabification: sa‧li‧va

From Latin salīva, probably borrowed.^[1]

saliva f (plural salivas)

1. saliva, spittle

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

saliva

1. inflection of salivar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “saliva”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

• salvia