saliver
French, verb/sa.li.ve/
saliver is spelled S-A-L-I-V-E-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 46,652nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Saliver is a French verb meaning “to salivate (produce saliva)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sécréter de la salive”.
What does saliver mean in English?
verb
- 1
to salivate (produce saliva)
- 2
to salivate (to show eager anticipation)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Sécréter de la salive. 2. Avoir très envie de quelque chose, en avoir l’eau à la bouche.
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 saliver
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- salivant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- salivé participle past
- salive first-person indicative present
- salives indicative present second-person
- salivons first-person indicative plural
- salivez indicative plural present
- salivent indicative plural present
- salivais first-person imperfect indicative
- salivait imperfect indicative singular
- salivions first-person imperfect indicative
- saliviez imperfect indicative plural
- salivaient imperfect indicative plural
- salivai first-person historic indicative
- salivas historic indicative past
- saliva historic indicative past
- salivâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce saliver?
- /sa.li.ve/
- \sa.li.ve\
- [sa.li.ve]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to saliver
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is saliver in French?
saliver appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).