salto

Borrowed from Italian salto (“jump, leap”), from Latin saltus (“jump, leap”). Compare German Salto, French salto, Dutch salto, Hungarian szaltó. Doublet of saltus.

salto (plural saltos)

1. (gymnastics) A somersault.
   • 2012, Dominique Moceanu, Off Balance: A Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page unknown:

     I originally thought I'd impress Bela with my fullout dismount (two saltos in a tucked position with a 360-degree twist on the second salto), but I hadn't perfected it on a hard landing surface yet.

• Sloat, Altos, stola, tolas, Tolas, altos, lotas, lotsa, Toals, sloat, Slota

From Dutch salto, from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.

salto (plural salto's)

1. somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation)

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

Borrowed from Italian salto. First attested in the 19th century.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈsalto]

salto n

1. somersault

• “salto”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “salto”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

salto

1. alternative form of saltomortale

Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.toː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑltoː
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

salto m (plural salto's, diminutive saltootje n)

1. somersault, flip (jump where one makes a 360° rotation) [from 19th c.]

• Afrikaans: salto

From Latin saltus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -alto
• Syllabification: sal‧to

salto (accusative singular salton, plural saltoj, accusative plural saltojn)

1. jump

• salti (“to jump”)

Borrowed from Italian salto. Doublet of saut.

• IPA^(key): /sal.to/

salto m (plural saltos)

1. (gymnastics) flip; somersault

   un salto arrière ― a backflip

   un salto avant ― a frontflip

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/ [ˈs̺ɑl̪.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -alto
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

salto m (plural saltos)

1. jump

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

From Esperanto salto, from Latin saltus.

salto (plural salti)

1. leap, jump, bound

• saltar (“to jump, leap, bound”)

Inherited from Malay salto, from Portuguese salto (“jump, leap”), from Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/ [ˈsal.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -alto
• Syllabification: sal‧to

salto (plural salto-salto)

1. backflip

• “salto”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.to/
• Rhymes: -alto
• Hyphenation: sàl‧to

From Latin saltus.

salto m (plural salti)

1. jump, leap, spring, bound

   Synonym: balzo

2. (figurative) change, jump, leap, rise, drop

   Synonyms: cambiamento, aumento, caduta

3. short call, short distance, hop
4. drop, fall

   Synonym: dislivello

5. gap
6. (music) interval, leap

• → Turkish: salto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltare

• Solta, solta, stola

From saliō +‎ -tō (forming frequentatives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsaɫ.toː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsal.to]

saltō (present infinitive saltāre, perfect active saltāvī, supine saltātum); first conjugation

1. to dance, jump
2. to portray or represent in a dance, pantomime

saltō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of saltus

• “salto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “salto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

salto

1. inflection of salts:
   1. definite vocative/accusative/instrumental masculine/feminine singular
   2. definite genitive masculine/feminine plural

Short form of saltomortale

salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoer, definite plural saltoene)

1. a somersault

• “salto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Short form of saltomortale

salto m (definite singular saltoen, indefinite plural saltoar, definite plural saltoane)

1. a somersault

• “salto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from Italian salto, from Latin saltus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.tɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -altɔ
• Syllabification: sal‧to

salto n

1. (gymnastics) somersault, flip

   salto w przód ― front flip

   salto w tył ― back flip

• salto in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• salto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -altu, (Brazil) -awtu
• Hyphenation: sal‧to

From Old Galician-Portuguese salto, from Latin saltus.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. jump, leap

   Synonym: pulo

2. heel (part of shoe)
3. ellipsis of salto-alto (“high heels”)
4. waterfall

   Synonyms: cascata, queda d'água

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

From Latin saltus. Doublet of souto and soito.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. (archaic) groove, thicket

• “salto”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “salto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/

salto ? 

1. liver

• Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007), A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 64

• IPA^(key): /ˈsalto/ [ˈsal̪.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -alto
• Syllabification: sal‧to

Borrowed from Latin saltus.

salto m (plural saltos)

1. jump, leap, jumping

   hacer un salto ― to jump/make a jump

2. skip

   Dimos un salto de veinte páginas

   We skipped twenty pages

3. gap; difference

   Hay un salto de cinco años entre los dos hermanos

   There's a five-year age gap between the two brothers

4. (sports) dive
5. (sports) jump, vault
6. waterfall

   Synonyms: cascada, catarata, caída de agua

• Salto is a false friend and does not mean salt. The Spanish word for salt is sal.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

salto

1. first-person singular present indicative of saltar

• “salto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025