palpitate Copy link Outline 1. palpĭto, 1 (to move with a quick tremulous motion; naturally or unnaturally)2. sălio, ii and ui, ltum, 4 (to throb, as the heart naturally does)3. mĭco, ui, 1 (like salio, denoting the natural action of the heart) • palpitate: 1. palpĭto, 1 (to move with a quick tremulous motion; naturally or unnaturally): to p. so fast (of the heart), tam mobiliter p., Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: half-alive and p.ing (quivering), semianimis palpitansque, Suet. Tib. 61, med. 2. sălio, ii and ui, ltum, 4 (to throb, as the heart naturally does): Join: salire atque palpitare, Plin. 10, 53, 74: Ov. M. 10, 289. See also to throb. 3. mĭco, ui, 1 (like salio, denoting the natural action of the heart): Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 24: also with ref. to the effect of fear, metu m., Ov. F. 3, 36 (so salio: Pl. Cas. 2, 6, 62). In same sense, emico: Vell. (To denote abnormal palpitation, use circuml., *nimia agitatione palpitare; celerius quam oportet palpitare, micare.)