salivate - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪveɪt/

salivate (third-person singular simple present salivates, present participle salivating, simple past and past participle salivated)

1. (intransitive) To produce saliva.
2. (intransitive) To show eager anticipation at the expectation of something.

   He's been salivating over the latest model sports car for a while now.

• saliva
• salivary
• salivation

• drool

• “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.

• aestival, availest, æstival

salivate

1. second-person plural imperfect indicative of salire
2. inflection of salivare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

• esaltavi, lisavate, salviate

salīvāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of salīvō

salivate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of salivar combined with te