Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.
Lustful; bawdy.
[From Latin salāx, salāc-, fond of leaping, lustful, from salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.] sa·la'cious·ly adv., sa·la'cious·ness, sa·lac'i·ty (sə-lās'ĭ-tē) n.
1661, from L. salax (gen. 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). Earliest form of the word in Eng. is salacity (1605).