salto

From Italian salto (“jump, leap”), from Latin saltus (“jump, leap”). Compare German Salto, French salto, Dutch salto, Hungarian szaltó.

salto (plural saltos)

1. (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.

From Dutch salto, from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.

salto (plural salto's)

1. somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation)

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

• IPA^(key): [ˈsalto]

salto n

1. somersault

• salto in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• salto in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

salto

1. Alternative form of saltomortale

Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.toː/

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• Hyphenation: sal‧to
• Rhymes: -ɑltoː

salto m (plural salto's, diminutive saltootje n)

1. somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation) [from 19th c.]

• Afrikaans: salto

From Latin saltus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsalto]
• Rhymes: -alto
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

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salto (accusative singular salton, plural saltoj, accusative plural saltojn)

1. jump

• salti (“to jump”)

Borrowed from Italian salto. Doublet of saut.

• IPA^(key): /sal.to/

salto m (plural saltos)

1. (gymnastics) flip; somersault

   un salto arrière ― a backflip

   un salto avant ― a frontflip

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.tʊ/

salto m (plural saltos)

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salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

From Esperanto salto, from Latin saltus.

salto (plural salti)

1. leap, jump, bound

• saltar (“to jump, leap, bound”)

From Malay salto, from Portuguese salto (“jump, leap”), from Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.

• * IPA^(key): [sal.to]
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

salto (first-person possessive saltoku, second-person possessive saltomu, third-person possessive saltonya)

1. backflip

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.to/
• Rhymes: -alto
• Hyphenation: sàl‧to

From Latin saltus.

salto m (plural salti)

1. jump, leap, spring, bound

   Synonym: balzo

2. (figurative) change, jump, leap, rise, drop

   Synonyms: cambiamento, aumento, caduta

3. short call, short distance, hop
4. drop, fall

   Synonym: dislivello

5. gap
6. (music) interval, leap

• → Turkish: salto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltare

• Solta, solta, stola

Frequentative of saliō through its past participle saltus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.toː/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪t̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsal.to/, [ˈsäl̪t̪o]

saltō (present infinitive saltāre, perfect active saltāvī, supine saltātum); first conjugation

1. to dance, jump
2. to portray or represent in a dance, pantomime

saltō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of saltus

• “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

salto

1. inflection of saltais:
   1. vocative/accusative/instrumental singular masculine/feminine
   2. genitive plural masculine/feminine

Short form of saltomortale

salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoer, definite plural saltoene)

1. a somersault

• “salto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Short form of saltomortale

salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoar, definite plural saltoane)

1. a somersault

• “salto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.tɔ/

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• Rhymes: -altɔ
• Syllabification: sal‧to

salto n

1. (gymnastics) somersault, flip

   salto w przód ― front flip

   salto w tył ― back flip

• salto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• salto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -altu, (Brazil) -awtu
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. jump, leap

   Synonym: pulo

2. heel (part of shoe)
3. waterfall

   Synonyms: cascata, queda d'água

• salto à vara, salto com vara
• salto em altura
• salto mortal
• salto triplo, triplo salto

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

From Latin saltus. Doublet of souto and soito.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. (archaic) groove, thicket

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/

salto ? 

1. liver

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 64

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/ [ˈsal̪.t̪o]

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• Rhymes: -alto
• Syllabification: sal‧to

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. jump, leap, jumping

   hacer un salto ― to jump/make a jump

2. skip

   Dimos un salto de veinte páginas

   We skipped twenty pages

3. gap; difference

   Hay un salto de cinco años entre los dos hermanos

   There's a five-year age gap between the two brothers

4. (sports) dive
5. (sports) jump, vault
6. waterfall

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

• “salto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014