salivar
Portuguese, verb/sa.liˈva(ʁ)/
salivar is spelled S-A-L-I-V-A-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 60,841st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Salivar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to salivate (to secrete saliva)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ejetar saliva; cuspir”.
What does salivar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to salivate (to secrete saliva)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. ejetar saliva; cuspir 2. produzir saliva
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of salivar
- salivo first-person present singular
- salivei first-person preterite singular
- salivado participle past
- salivares infinitive second-person singular
- salivarmos first-person infinitive plural
- salivardes infinitive plural second-person
- salivarem infinitive plural third-person
- salivando gerund
- salivados masculine participle past
- salivada feminine participle past
- salivadas feminine participle past
- salivas indicative present second-person
- saliva indicative present singular
- salivamos first-person indicative plural
- salivais indicative plural present
- salivam indicative plural present
- salivava first-person imperfect indicative
- salivavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce salivar?
- Brazil /sa.liˈva(ʁ)/
- Brazil [sa.liˈva(h)]
- /sa.liˈva(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to salivar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is salivar in Portuguese?
salivar appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).