saltus

From Latin saltus (“a leap”).

saltus (plural saltus or saltuses)

1. A break of continuity in time.
2. A leap from premises to conclusion.

• S. Austl., Saults, saults, tussal

saltus

1. conditional of salti

saltus

1. conditional of saltar

From saliō +‎ -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

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.”

Fourth-declension noun.

• saltuātim
• saltus lunae

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?)

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

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.

Fourth-declension noun.

• (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)

• saltuārius
• saltuēnsis
• saltuōsus

• “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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “saltus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

saltus

1. accusative plural masculine of salts