saltus

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See also: ŝaltus

English

Etymology

From Latin saltus (“a leap”).

Noun

saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)

  1. A break of continuity in time.
  2. A leap from premises to conclusion.

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Esperanto

Verb

saltus

  1. conditional of salti

Ido

Verb

saltus

  1. conditional of saltar

Latin

Etymology 1

From saliō +‎ -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

Noun

saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension

  1. A leap, jump, bound, spring; a leaping
    Nātūra nōn facit saltūs.
    Nature does not make leaps.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.565–566:
      “Dēseruēre omnēs dēfessī, et corpora saltū
      ad terram mīsēre aut ignibus aegra dedēre.”
      “All , exhausted, had given up , and with a leap had flung to the ground or else consigned their weakened bodies to the flames.”
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative saltus saltūs
genitive saltūs saltuum
dative saltuī saltibus
accusative saltum saltūs
ablative saltū saltibus
vocative saltus saltūs
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Perhaps related to silva. Compare also Ancient Greek άλσος (álsos, “sacred grove, copse”), from Pre-Greek, which would point to substrate origin if related.

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension

  1. 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
  2. A defile, a narrow pass
  3. (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

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative saltus saltūs
genitive saltūs saltuum
dative saltuī saltibus
accusative saltum saltūs
ablative saltū saltibus
vocative saltus saltūs
Meronyms
Derived terms
Descendants

References

  • “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

Adjective

saltus

  1. accusative plural masculine of salts
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