English
salacious
Salacious comes from Latin salāx ‘provocative, lustful’, and goes back to saliō ‘to leap, jump’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaliō‘to leap, jump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalāxas salāx‘provocative, lustful’
- Englishtodaysalacious
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsaliō‘to leap, jump’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalāxas salāx‘provocative, lustful’
- Englishtodaysalacious
Formed from -ious
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sel- ‘jump, spring’
sale, insult, savage, exile, silva, salon, salvage, sill, sylvan, salle, slink, somersault, selva, seel, selly, 18 more
through Latin saliō ‘to leap, jump’
result, salt, sauce, salmon, resilience, sally, salad, resilient, salient, resiliency, sauté, exultant, salience, 27 more
Today it means
adj Promoting sexual desire or lust.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin saliō / salacious