The corpus record — Latin

salivo

To spit out

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Saturae 2 · 4.42/10k
Carmina 3 · 2.33/10k
De ieiunio adversus psychicos 1 · 1.69/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Elegiae 2 · 0.79/10k
Naturalis Historia 30 · 0.76/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 5 · 0.64/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
De Medicina 4 · 0.39/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sălīvo — Lewis & Short

sălīvo, no

I perf., ātum, 1, v. a. saliva. *

I To spit out, discharge, yield: lentorem cujusdam cerae (purpurae), Plin. 9, 36, 60, § 125.—

II In veterinary lang., to salivate, cure by salivation: aegrotum pecus, vaccam, admissarium, Col. 6, 5, 2; 6, 7, 9; 5, 24, 5; 6, 37, 9; pass., Pall. Apr. 7.—Hence, să-līvātum, i, n. (acc. to II.), a medicine employed to excite the flow of saliva, Col. 6, 10, 1; Plin. 27, 11, 76, § 101; Veg. 3, 2, 25.

In the wild

saliva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 28.7.p2
saliva Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.23.p2
salivant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 9.36.p1
salivati Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.10.2
saliuas Propertius, Elegiae 4.7.37
saliva Lucan, Pharsalia 9.925

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.