The corpus record — Latin

salivosus

salivosus · adj

Full of spittle

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Where it lives

Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

sălīvōsus — Lewis & Short

sălīvōsus, a, um, adj.id..

I Full of spittle, slavering: labia, App. Mag. p. 313: aegrotans, Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 2 fin.—

II Slimy, clammy: umor (corticis ulmorum), Plin. 16, 38, 72, § 181.

In the wild

saliuosa Apuleius, Apologia 59
salivosus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.38.p1

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.