SWALLOW Copy link • SWALLOW 1. s. A bird, hirundo: a swallow’s nest, nidus hirundineus: swallow-tail (in joinery), securicula (Vitr.); (if double) subscus, -udis: swallow-wort, *Asclepias vincetoxicum (Linn.). The throat, gula (Plin.): fauces, plur., (Cic.). 2. v. glutire (PROP., to gulp down; post- Augustan): absorbere (to take down, things dry and liquid): devorare (PROP., to swallow greedily, to devour, dry food; also, figuratively = to put up with it; e.g., molestiam, Cic.): exsorbere (figuratively, to bear anything, or put it with it; e.g., difficultatem, Cic.).