sauter

See also: Sauter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. Obsolete form of psalter.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sauter.

Verb

sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)

1. Dated form of sauté.

Etymology 3

Due to American pronunciation.

Noun

sauter (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of solder.

Verb

sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)

1. Misspelling of solder.

Anagrams

• auster, Uretas, Auster, Sutera, Atreus, Tauers, urates

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.te/

• Audio:

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Verb

sauter

1. (intransitive) to jump, leap

   Je saute sur mon lit. ― I'm jumping on my bed.

2. (transitive) to jump over
3. (transitive) to sauté
4. (transitive, slang) to bang, hump, have sex with

   Je l’ai sauté(e) sur mon lit. ― I banged him/her on my bed.

5. (transitive) to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones)

   Leur fille est brillante, elle a sauté deux années.

   Their daughter is brilliant, she has skipped two years

6. (intransitive) to explode

Conjugation

Conjugation of sauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sauter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sautant /so.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sauté /so.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saute /sot/	sautes /sot/	saute /sot/	sautons /so.tɔ̃/	sautez /so.te/	sautent /sot/
	imperfect	sautais /so.tɛ/	sautais /so.tɛ/	sautait /so.tɛ/	sautions /so.tjɔ̃/	sautiez /so.tje/	sautaient /so.tɛ/
	past historic2	sautai /so.te/	sautas /so.ta/	sauta /so.ta/	sautâmes /so.tam/	sautâtes /so.tat/	sautèrent /so.tɛʁ/
	future	sauterai /so.tʁe/	sauteras /so.tʁa/	sautera /so.tʁa/	sauterons /so.tʁɔ̃/	sauterez /so.tʁe/	sauteront /so.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sauterais /so.tʁɛ/	sauterais /so.tʁɛ/	sauterait /so.tʁɛ/	sauterions /so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sauteriez /so.tə.ʁje/	sauteraient /so.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	saute /sot/	sautes /sot/	saute /sot/	sautions /so.tjɔ̃/	sautiez /so.tje/	sautent /sot/
	imperfect2	sautasse /so.tas/	sautasses /so.tas/	sautât /so.ta/	sautassions /so.ta.sjɔ̃/	sautassiez /so.ta.sje/	sautassent /so.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saute /sot/	—	sautons /so.tɔ̃/	sautez /so.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• corde à sauter
• et que ça saute
• faire sauter
• faire sauter la banque
• reculer pour mieux sauter
• sautable
• sauter aux yeux
• sauter du coq à l’âne
• sauter le pas
• sauterie
• sauteur
• sauteuse
• sautoir
• se faire sauter la cervelle

 

Related terms

• assaut
• saut
• saillir

Descendants

• → Turkish: sote (via past participle)

Further reading

• “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• autres, restau, ruâtes, sature, saturé, tueras

Middle English

Alternative forms

• psauter, psautere, psawter, psawtere, salter, sautyer, sawteer, sawter
• psalteer, psaltyre, psaulter, psaultier, saulter, sauteer, sautier, sautiere, sautir, sawghter, sawtar, sawtere, sawtier, sawtiere, sawtire, sawtur, sawtyre (Late Middle English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈteːr/, /ˈsau̯tər/

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. The Biblical book of Psalms; the section of the Bible containing psalms.
2. A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
3. A psalter; a book containing psalms and related material.
4. A psaltery (lute-like string instrument)

Descendants

• English: psalter

References

• “sautē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin saltō, saltāre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Verb

sauter

1. (Jersey) to jump

Scots

Etymology

saut (“salt”) +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɑːtər], [ˈsɔːtər]
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [ˈsaːtər]

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. salter (maker of salt)
2. one who can do severe things