saltus
See also: ŝaltus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)
- A break of continuity in time.
- A leap from premises to conclusion.
Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Verb edit
saltus
- conditional of salti
Ido edit
Verb edit
saltus
- conditional of saltar
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From saliō + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
Noun edit
saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | saltus | saltūs |
Genitive | saltūs | saltuum |
Dative | saltuī | saltibus |
Accusative | saltum | saltūs |
Ablative | saltū | saltibus |
Vocative | saltus | saltūs |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Perhaps related to silva.
Noun edit
saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension
- A forest or mountain pasture; a pass, dale, ravine, glade.
- 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 1.95:
- aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
- or as the bees, having attained their forest, and their sweet-smelling pastures, range through the flowers and the tips of the thyme
- aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
- A defile, a narrow pass
- (historical units of measure) A saltus, a large unit of area equal to four centuriae (approximately 500 acres or 200 hectares), used especially in reference to tracts of public land.
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | saltus | saltūs |
Genitive | saltūs | saltuum |
Dative | saltuī | saltibus |
Accusative | saltum | saltūs |
Ablative | saltū | saltibus |
Vocative | saltus | saltūs |
Meronyms edit
- (unit of area): decempeda (1⁄230,400 saltus); clima (1⁄6400 saltus); actus (1⁄1600 saltus); iugerum (1⁄800 saltus); heredium (1⁄400 saltus); centuria (1⁄4 saltus)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- “saltus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “saltus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- saltus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- saltus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Latvian edit
Adjective edit
saltus