saut

See also: saût

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so/

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• Rhymes: -so
• Homophones: sauts, sceau, sceaux, seau, seaux (general), sot, sots (except regionally)

Noun

saut m (plural sauts)

1. jump
2. (gymnastics) vault: ellipsis of saut de cheval
3. rapids (fast section of a river or stream)

Derived terms

• faire le grand saut
• faire un saut
• grand saut
• saut à la corde
• saut à la perche (“pole vault”)
• saut à l'élastique
• saut à ski (“ski jump, ski jumping”)
• saut carpé
• saut de cheval
• saut de l'ange (“swan dive”)
• saut de lapin (“bunny hop”)
• saut de ligne
• saut de puce
• saut d'obstacles
• saut en chute libre
• saut en hauteur (“high jump”)
• saut en longueur (“long jump”)
• saut périlleux
• saut-de-loup (“(wide) ditch, haha; opening placed at ground level that allows natural light to illuminate a basement”)
• triple saut (“triple jump”)

Related terms

• sauter

Further reading

• “saut”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• suât, tuas, usât

Iban

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saut/

Verb

saut

1. answer

Latgalian

Verb

saut

1. to shoot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

saut

1. (nonstandard) past tense of syta

Plautdietsch

Adjective

saut

1. satisfied. satiated
2. fed-up, sick of, had enough

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sealt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sɑːt], [sɔːt]
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [saːt]

Noun

saut (plural sauts)

1. salt
2. bitter consequences, retribution, smart, sharp, stinging words, sarcasm

Derived terms

• saut bree
• saut dish
• saut's sel
• saut-backet
• saut-watter
• sauter
• sautie
• wirth saut til his kail

Verb

saut (third-person singular simple present sauts, present participle sautin, simple past sautit, past participle sautit)

1. to preserve in salt, pickle, sprinkle with salt
2. to punish, take revenge, snub, repress, treat severely

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English south.

Noun

saut

1. south