Etymology

salacity

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Today it means: The state or quality of being salacious; lewdness, obscenity, bawdiness. Full definition →

Latin salācitās
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsalācitās“promoting sexual desire or lust”
  2. English todaysalacity

From salac(ious) + -ity, from Latin salācitās (“promoting sexual desire or lust”) (whence -acity), from salāx (“prone to leaping, provocative”), from saliō (“leap, jump, bound”).

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