saltus

See also: ŝaltus

English

Etymology

From Latin saltus (“a leap”). Doublet of salto.

Noun

saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)

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

Anagrams

• S. Austl., Saults, saults, tussal

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 [of my men], exhausted, had given up [the fight], and with a leap had flung [themselves] to the ground [below] 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

• 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
• Venetan: salt, salto

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

• (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

1. accusative plural masculine of salts