salire
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);
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...infantibus parvis e terraque exorta repente arbusta salirent. quorum nil fieri manifestum est, omnia quando paulatim crescunt..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Colonia, quae cupis ponte ludere longo, et salire paratum habes, sed vereris inepta crura ponticuli axulis stantis..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...linguae, ipsa iacet terraeque tremens inmurmurat atrae, utque salire solet mutilatae cauda colubrae, palpitat et moriens dominae vestigia..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...teneri custodes rati alii per murum fugere, alii salire de muro praecipitarique turba pauentium. magna pars tamen ignara..."