salto
English edit
Etymology edit
From Italian salto (“jump, leap”), from Latin saltus (“jump, leap”). Compare German Salto, French salto, Dutch salto, Hungarian szaltó.
Noun edit
salto (plural saltos)
- (rare) A somersault.
- 2012, Dominique Moceanu, Off Balance: A Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page unknown:
- I originally thought I'd impress Bela with my fullout dismount (two saltos in a tucked position with a 360-degree twist on the second salto), but I hadn't perfected it on a hard landing surface yet.
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch salto, from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.
Noun edit
salto (plural salto's)
- somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation)
Asturian edit
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salto
Catalan edit
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salto
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
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salto n
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Danish edit
Noun edit
salto
- Alternative form of saltomortale
Declension edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | salto | saltoen | saltoer | saltoerne |
genitive | saltos | saltoens | saltoers | saltoernes |
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus. First attested in the 18th century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto m (plural salto's, diminutive saltootje n)
- somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation) [from 19th c.]
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: salto
Esperanto edit
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Audio (file)
Noun edit
salto (accusative singular salton, plural saltoj, accusative plural saltojn)
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- salti (“to jump”)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian salto. Doublet of saut.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto m (plural saltos)
- (gymnastics) flip; somersault
- un salto arrière ― a backflip
- un salto avant ― a frontflip
Galician edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto m (plural saltos)
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Etymology 2 edit
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salto
Ido edit
Etymology edit
From Esperanto salto, from Latin saltus.
Noun edit
salto (plural salti)
Related terms edit
- saltar (“to jump, leap, bound”)
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay salto, from Portuguese salto (“jump, leap”), from Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto (first-person possessive saltoku, second-person possessive saltomu, third-person possessive saltonya)
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
salto m (plural salti)
- jump, leap, spring, bound
- Synonym: balzo
- (figurative) change, jump, leap, rise, drop
- Synonyms: cambiamento, aumento, caduta
- short call, short distance, hop
- drop, fall
- Synonym: dislivello
- gap
- (music) interval, leap
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: salto
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
salto
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Frequentative of saliō through its past participle saltus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.toː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪t̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.to/, [ˈsäl̪t̪o]
Verb edit
saltō (present infinitive saltāre, perfect active saltāvī, supine saltātum); first conjugation
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Descendants edit
- Aragonese: saltar
- Aromanian: saltu, asaltu
- Asturian: saltar
- Catalan: saltar
- Corsican: saltà, sartà
- Dalmatian: satur
- English: saltate
- Extremaduran: saltal
- French: sauter
- Friulian: saltâ
- Galician: saltar, choutar
- Gallurese: saltà
- Istriot: saltà
- Italian: saltare
- Ligurian: sâtâ
- Mozarabic: شاوتا (šáwta)
- Norman: sauter
- Occitan: sautar, saltar
- Piedmontese: sauté
- Portuguese: saltar
- Romanian: sălta, săltare
- Sardinian: saltai, saltare, sartare
- Sassarese: salthà
- Sicilian: satari, sautari
- Spanish: saltar, sotar
- Venetian: saltar
Participle edit
saltō
References edit
- “salto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “salto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Latvian edit
Adjective edit
salto
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Short form of saltomortale
Noun edit
salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoer, definite plural saltoene)
References edit
- “salto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Short form of saltomortale
Noun edit
salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoar, definite plural saltoane)
References edit
- “salto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto n
- (gymnastics) somersault, flip
- salto w przód ― front flip
- salto w tył ― back flip
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Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.
Noun edit
salto m (plural saltos)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
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salto
Etymology 3 edit
From Latin saltus. Doublet of souto and soito.
Noun edit
salto m (plural saltos)
Sidamo edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
salto ?
References edit
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 64
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
salto m (plural saltos)
- jump, leap, jumping
- hacer un salto ― to jump/make a jump
- skip
- Dimos un salto de veinte páginas
- We skipped twenty pages
- gap; difference
- Hay un salto de cinco años entre los dos hermanos
- There's a five-year age gap between the two brothers
- (sports) dive
- (sports) jump, vault
- waterfall
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
salto
Further reading edit
- “salto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014