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
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..."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..."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..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quas cepissent hostibus ut per praecipitia et praerupta salientes fugerent; eam quoque se illis fugam clausurum. cohortesque duas..."