- salacious
[salacious 词源字典]
- salacious: see salient
[salacious etymology, salacious origin, 英语词源] - salacious (adj.)
- 1660s, from Latin salax (genitive salacis) "lustful," probably originally "fond of leaping," as in a male animal leaping on a female in sexual advances, from salire "to leap" (see salient (adj.)). Earliest form of the word in English is salacity (c. 1600). Related: Salaciously; salaciousness.