🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

saltare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: sal-ta-re

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Jump/dʒʌmp/
verbnounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il cane ha iniziato a saltare di gioia."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in legs and feet.

    "The children love to jump on the trampoline in the backyard."
As noun
  1. 1

    An act of jumping; a sudden spring into the air.

    "With a single jump, she cleared the small stream."

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Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from early 16th-century Germanic and Scandinavian roots, akin to Middle Dutch 'jumpen' and Swedish 'jumpa' meaning to spring or bound. It entered English initially as a term for physical leaping before expanding metaphorically into rapid increases and sudden changes.

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