salive
French, noun
salive is spelled S-A-L-I-V-E (6 letters) and appears 2.8 times per million words in written French, the 16,835th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salive is a French feminine noun meaning “saliva” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of saliver. With an accent, salivé is a different word: “past participle of saliver”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Liquide clair, alcalin, produit par les glandes salivaires placées autour de la bouche et qui commence la…”.
What does salive mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesaliva
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of saliver
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Liquide clair, alcalin, produit par les glandes salivaires placées autour de la bouche et qui commence la digestion des aliments.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salive
- salives plural
- salivée feminine
- salivés masculine plural
- salivées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to salive
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salive in French?
salive appears 2.8 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).