salti

See also: sálti, saltí, and ŝalti

Catalan

Verb

salti

1. inflection of saltar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin saltō. Compare Italian saltare, English saltate, French sauter. Doublet of ĥoto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsalti]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -alti
• Hyphenation: sal‧ti

Verb

salti (present saltas, past saltis, future saltos, conditional saltus, volitive saltu)

1. to jump, spring, leap
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, chapter L, in Proverbaro Esperanta [Esperanto Proverbs]‎^[1] (overall work in Esperanto), Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie:

     Li saltas gracie, kiel urso ebria.

     He leaps gracefully, like a drunk bear.

   • 2015 [1966], J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in Christopher Gledhill, transl., La Hobito [The Hobbit] (hardcover; overall work in Esperanto), Scotland: Evertype, →ISBN, page 9:

     Je tio la dek du gnomoj...saltis pieden, kaj stakigis ĉion alte.

     With that, the twelve dwarves...leapt to their feet, and stacked everything high.

2. (figuratively) to jump, leap from one thing to another
   • 2020, “salti”, in Michel Duc Goninaz, editor, Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto 2020 [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto 2020]‎^[2] (overall work in Esperanto), Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda:

     la konversacio saltis de unu temo al alia

     the conversation jumped from one subject to another

3. (figuratively, of quantities) to increase suddenly
   • 2020, “salti”, in Michel Duc Goninaz, editor, Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto 2020 [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto 2020]‎^[3] (overall work in Esperanto), Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda:

     la gradoj de varma saltis de 8 ĝis 25

     the temperature jumped from 8 to 25

Conjugation

Conjugation of salti

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		saltas		saltis		saltos
active participle		saltanta	saltantaj	saltinta	saltintaj	saltonta	saltontaj
	acc.	saltantan	saltantajn	saltintan	saltintajn	saltontan	saltontajn
nominal active participle		saltanto	saltantoj	saltinto	saltintoj	saltonto	saltontoj
	acc.	saltanton	saltantojn	saltinton	saltintojn	saltonton	saltontojn
adverbial active participle		saltante		saltinte		saltonte

infinitive		salti						imperative		saltu						conditional		saltus

Derived terms

• salto (“a jump”)
• salte (“by jumping”)
• saltadi (“to continually or repeatedly jump”)
• saltado (“a jumping motion; a jump in sports”)
• saltegi (“to make a big jump”)
• salteti (“to make a series of small jumps; to hop”)
• alsalti (“to jump out; to pounce”)
• desalti (“to jump down from”)
• dissalti (“(for something) to suddenly break apart”)
• dissaltigi (“to suddenly break something apart”)
• eksalti (“to jump up; to leap”)
• elsalti (“to jump away from”)
• elsaltulo (“a person who got rich or rose in rank quickly”)
• ensalti (“to jump into”)
• forsalti (“to suddenly leave”)
• resalti (“to bounce; to rebound”)
• transsalti (“to jump across”)
• ĉizsaltulo (“a jumping insect with a chisel-shaped tail end (the suborder Caelifera of order Orthoptera); a grasshopper”)
• flankensalti (“to jump aside”)
• glavsaltulo (“a jumping insect with a sword-shaped tail end (the suborder Ensifera of order Orthoptera); a cricket; a katydid”)
• saltulo (“a jumping insect of the order Orthoptera”)
• herbsaltulo (“a jumping insect of the order Orthoptera; a grasshopper”)
• mortosalto (“an acrobatic leap involving turning completely in the air”)
• ondresalto (“the surf”)
• ŝafsaltado (“the game of leapfrog”)
• ŝnursalti (“to jumprope”)

References

• “salti”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 2020

Icelandic

Noun

salti n

1. indefinite dative singular of salt

Verb

salti

1. first-person singular active present subjunctive of salta
2. third-person singular active present subjunctive of salta
3. third-person plural active present subjunctive of salta

Ido

Noun

salti

1. plural of salto

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsal.ti/
• Rhymes: -alti
• Hyphenation: sàl‧ti

Noun

salti m

1. plural of salto

Verb

salti

1. inflection of saltare:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. third-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• lista, stila

Latin

Participle

saltī

1. inflection of saltus:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Latvian

Adjective

salti

1. nominative plural masculine of salts

Adverb

salti

1. cold, coldly; adverbial form of salts

   viņam kļuva salti ― he got cold

   salti paskatīties ― to look coldly (at someone, something)

Old Norse

Adjective

salti

1. weak masculine nominative singular of saltr

Noun

salti

1. indefinite dative singular of salt

Verb

salti

1. third-person present subjunctive of salta