## Meanings
1. To produce saliva in your mouth, especially at the thought or smell of food.
2. To show eager excitement about something you really want.

## Examples
- The smell of fresh bread made everyone start to salivate.
- Fans have been salivating over the new smartphone for weeks.

## Derived Forms
- desalivate
- hypersalivate
- salivatingly
- salivator
- unsalivated

## Related Forms
- drool
- saliva
- salivary
- salivation

## Etymology
From Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”).

## AI Etymology
Salivate is from Latin salivatus, past participle of salivare (“to spit out, also salivate”), from saliva (“spittle”). In present-day use, it can mean to produce saliva in your mouth, especially at the thought or smell of food, or to show eager excitement about something you really want. Derived formations include desalivate, hypersalivate, salivatingly, salivator, and unsalivated.

## Topics
- Mind & Cognition
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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