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English
Etymology
From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).
Pronunciation
Verb
salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)
- (intransitive) To produce saliva.
- (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.
He's been salivating over the latest model sports car for a while now.
Translations
to produce saliva
- Armenian: թքարտադրել (tʻkʻartadrel)
- Bulgarian: отделям слюнка (otdeljam sljunka)
- Catalan: salivar (ca)
- Czech: slinit
- Dutch: kwijlen (nl)
- Esperanto: salivi
- French: saliver (fr)
- German: speicheln (de), geifern (de), sabbern (de)
- Hungarian: nyáladzik (hu)
- Icelandic: slefa (is)
- Italian: salivare (it), sbavare (it)
- Kurdish:
- Northern 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), слюня́вить (ru) impf (sljunjávitʹ), наслюня́вить (ru) pf (nasljunjávitʹ), заслюня́вить (ru) pf (zasljunjávitʹ)
- Spanish: salivar (es)
- Swedish: salivera, dregla (sv)
- Walloon: gleter (wa), blefer (wa)
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to show eager anticipation
See also
Further reading
- “salivate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “salivate”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “salivate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
salivate
- second-person plural imperfect indicative of salire
- inflection of salivare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
salīvāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of salīvō
Spanish
Verb
salivate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of salivar combined with te