salire

This means “lustful, lecherous,” from the Latin salire, “to jump or spurt,” and originated in Familiar Letters, by James Howell, who noted in 1645 that Venus, goddess of pleasure, “was ingendred in the froth of the sea,” which “makes fish more salacious commonly than flesh.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This means “lustful, lecherous,” from the Latin salire, “to jump or spurt,” and originated in Familiar Letters, by James Howell, who noted in 1645 that Venus, goddess of pleasure, “was ingendred in the froth of the sea,” which “makes fish more salacious commonly than flesh.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This means “lustful, lecherous,” from the Latin salire, “to jump or spurt,” and originated in Familiar Letters, by James Howell, who noted in 1645 that Venus, goddess of pleasure, “was ingendred in the froth of the sea,” which “makes fish more salacious commonly than flesh.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

This means “lustful, lecherous,” from the Latin salire, “to jump or spurt,” and originated in Familiar Letters, by James Howell, who noted in 1645 that Venus, goddess of pleasure, “was ingendred in the froth of the sea,” which “makes fish more salacious commonly than flesh.”

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

Second Book rendering _salis avarus_ by _de sal avariento_ -- the second person singular of the present indicative of the verb _salire_ being mistaken for the genitive of the substantive _sal_ [271] -- we may perhaps conclude that a boyish exercise has somehow escaped destruction.

Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

Salmon comes directly from the Latin _salmo_, a salmon, which literally meant the leaper, from _salire_ -- to leap.

The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year William Beebe 1919

Desilio, desilis, desilii or desiliui: middle syllable short in trisyllables in the present; meaning, de aliquo salire siue descendere festinanter.

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London 1901

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The willow’s natural habit of spontaneous self-setting from cuttings is embodied in its name, Salix, which stems from the Latin verb salire, to leap.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The willow’s natural habit of spontaneous self-setting from cuttings is embodied in its name, Salix, which stems from the Latin verb salire, to leap.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009