salivary

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English saliva

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusder.

Middle English -arie

English -ary

English salivary

From saliva + -ary.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsælɪˌvɛɹi/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈlaɪvəɹi/, /ˈsælɪvəɹi/

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Adjective

salivary (not comparable)

1. Relating to saliva.

Derived terms

• antisalivary
• enterosalivary
• mucosalivary
• nonsalivary
• salivary gland
• venomosalivary

Translations

of or pertaining to saliva

• Arabic: لُعَابِيّ (luʕābiyy)
• Belarusian: слі́нны (slínny)
• Bulgarian: слю́нчен (bg) (sljúnčen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 唾液的 (zh) (tuòyè de)

• Czech: slinný
• Esperanto: saliva (eo)
• French: salivaire (fr)
• German: Speichel- (de)
• Irish: seileach
• Italian: salivare (it)
• Macedonian: плунковен (plunkoven)
• Polish: ślinowy (pl)
• Portuguese: salivar (pt)
• Russian: слю́нный (ru) (sljúnnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пљу̀вачнӣ

  Latin: pljùvačnī (sh)

• Slovak: slinný
• Spanish: salival (es), salivar (es)
• Ukrainian: сли́нний (slýnnyj)
• Volapük: salifik

Noun

salivary (plural salivaries)

1. A salivary gland.
   • 1914, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 130:

     The most striking peculiarity, however, is the presence of a pair of glands (possibly aborted salivaries) apparently issuing from the posterior of the pharynx, and looking like the two ends of a clergyman's bands or cravat.