saltus

See also: ŝaltus

English

Etymology

Latin saltus (“a leap”)

Noun

saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)

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

Anagrams

S. Austl., Saults, saults, tussal

Esperanto

Verb

saltus

conditional of salti

Ido

Verb

saltus

conditional of saltar

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Noun

saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension

A leap, jump; a leaping
Nātūra nōn facit saltūs.
Nature does not make leaps.

Declension

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

saltuātim
saltus lunae

Descendants

Asturian: saltu
Catalan: salt
Corsican: saltu
Dutch: salto
English: sault
French: saut
Friulian: salt
Galician: salto
Italian: salto
- → Hungarian: szaltó
Occitan: saut
Old French: sault
Portuguese: salto
Romanian: salt
Sicilian: sautu, satu
Spanish: salto
Venetian: salt, salto

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to silva.

Noun

saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension

A forest or mountain pasture; a pass, dale, ravine, glade.
- 2 CE, Ovid, Ars Amatoria 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
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

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

(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

saltuārius
saltuēnsis
saltuōsus

Descendants

Italian: salto
Asturian: sotu
Fala: soitu
Galician: souto
Portuguese: souto, soito, salto
Sardinian: sartu
Spanish: soto

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

accusative plural masculine form of salts