saliva

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/

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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]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [səˈli.βə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [səˈli.və]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [saˈli.va]

saliva f (plural salives)

1. saliva

• salivar

• “saliva”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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): /saˈliva/
• 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

From Latin salīva.

• scialiva, sciliva

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.wa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [saˈliː.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.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “saliva”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• Hyphenation: sa‧li‧va

Learned borrowing 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 conjugation

1. to salivate

saliva f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of salivă

• IPA^(key): /saˈliba/ [saˈli.β̞a]

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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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

• salvia