insalivate
English
Verb
insalivate (third-person singular simple present insalivates, present participle insalivating, simple past and past participle insalivated)
- (transitive) To mix with saliva, as when eating.
- 1913, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, volume 6, page 281:
- The results of insalivating milk are very suggestive that saliva has a bactericidal or anti-putrefactive function.
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Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
insalivate
- inflection of insalivare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
insalivate f pl
- feminine plural of insalivato