About
Menu

salivalis

salivalis [CL saliva+-alis], pertaining to (the production of) saliva, salivary. virtus gustativa nunquam sine humore ~i [Trevisa: þe humour of spotel] inter sapores discernere arbitratur Bart. Angl. IV 4; ille vene vocantur a medicis ~es, sive habitacio ~is [Trevisa: þe veynes of spotil and þe hous of spotile] Ib. V 21; cum alii sensus medium habeant extra origani [sic; l. organi] substantiam, sicut gustus †salinalem [l. salivalem] humorem Gilb. III 163v. 2; sapor non immutat bene nisi propter humiditatem ~em cui commiscetur Bacon Maj. II 456.

Saved

Recent