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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

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.

More information singular, plural ...
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Etymology 2

Uncertain. Varro claims that the term initially described untilled land taken from private use and that its name derives from the word salvus (“saved”). Isidore of Seville connects the term with the verb saliō (“to jump”) and the growth of trees. It has also been connected with Ancient Greek ἄλσος (álsos), although this is unlikely. The philologist Edwin Fay has compared the term to German wald, from *walþuz.

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
    • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 5.36:
      quos agros non colebant propter silvas aut id genus, ubi pecus possit pasci, et possidebant, ab usu s<al>vo saltus nominarunt.
      • Translation by Roland G. Kent
        The fields which they did not till on account of woods or that kind where flocks can be grazed, but still they took them for private use, they called "saltus" from the fact that their use was salvus (“saved”)
    • Isidore of Seville, Etymologiarum libri XX 17.6.8:
      Saltus est densitas arborum alta, vocata hoc nomine eo quod exiliat in altum et in sublime consurgat
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  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.

More information singular, plural ...
Meronyms
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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.
  • Aggeliki Iliopoulou; Artemis Archontogeorgi; Charilaos N. Michalopoulos (1 January 2020), “Groves, forests, animals, and birds in the Tereus-Procne-Philomela story (Ov. Met. 6.412-674)”, in Mediterranean Chronicle‎, page 141
  • Herbert Dukinfield Darbishire; Robert Seymour Conway (1895), Relliquiæ philologicæ: or, Essays in comparative philology‎, Cambridge University Press, page 51
  • Edwin W. Fay (1918), “Etymological Notes”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology‎, volume 17, number 3, →ISSN, page 424
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Latvian

Adjective

saltus

  1. accusative masculine plural of salts

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