salient
Dictionary entries
- Entry →salio, salire, salivi, salitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
salt, salt down, preserve with salt; sprinkle before sacrifice;; leap, jump; move suddenly/spasmodically (part of body under stress), twitch;; spurt, discharge, be ejected under force (water/fluid); mount/cover (by stud);
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sensibus turbabuntur, nec confundent ex diversis orationem velut salientes huc illuc nec usquam insistentes. Postremo habebunt modum..." - P
Ecloga V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...fessis in gramine, quale per aestum dulcis aquae saliente sitim restinguere riuo. Nec calamis solum aequiperas, sed uoce..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...membra meorum.' intonuit dicente dea, tonitrumque secuti cum saliente graves ceciderunt grandine nimbi, aeraque et tumidum subitis concursibus..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quas cepissent hostibus ut per praecipitia et praerupta salientes fugerent; eam quoque se illis fugam clausurum. cohortesque duas..."