saltus
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See also: ŝaltus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)
- A break of continuity in time.
- A leap from premises to conclusion.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]saltus
- conditional of salti
Ido
[edit]Verb
[edit]saltus
- conditional of saltar
Latin
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From saliō + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).
Noun
[edit]saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | saltus | saltūs |
genitive | saltūs | saltuum |
dative | saltuī | saltibus |
accusative | saltum | saltūs |
ablative | saltū | saltibus |
vocative | saltus | saltūs |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]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
[edit]saltus m (genitive saltūs); fourth declension
- 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
- aut ut apēs saltusque suos et olentia nactae / pascua per flōrēs et thyma summa volant
- 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
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | saltus | saltūs |
genitive | saltūs | saltuum |
dative | saltuī | saltibus |
accusative | saltum | saltūs |
ablative | saltū | saltibus |
vocative | saltus | saltūs |
Meronyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]saltus
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