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salt
jump, leap /salt/
noun#3474 most common
Also: bound, vault, (figurative) leap forward, surge
Example sentences
Copilul face un salt mare.
The child makes a big jump.
Pisica a făcut un salt peste gard.
The cat made a jump over the fence.
Sportivul a executat un salt perfect la paralele.
The athlete performed a perfect vault on the parallel bars.
Economia a înregistrat un salt semnificativ în ultimul trimestru.
The economy recorded a significant leap in the last quarter.
Saltul calitativ făcut de echipă a surprins pe toată lumea.
The qualitative leap the team made surprised everyone.
Printr-un salt mortal dublu, gimnasta și-a încheiat exercițiul cu o notă maximă.
With a double somersault, the gymnast finished her routine with a perfect score.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | salt | salturi |
| Genitive | saltului | salturilor |
| Accusative | salt | salturi |
| Vocative | saltule | salturilor |
Word family
a săltato jump, to bounce, to skip
săltărețbouncy, lively, skittish
salt mortalsomersault
săltarethe act of jumping or bouncing
sălticela little hop or skip
Etymology
Salt comes from the Latin saltus, meaning a leap or jump, itself from the verb salire, to jump. Romanian kept the word almost unchanged from Latin, unlike many other core vocabulary items that shifted more in form. The same Latin root gave rise to similar words across the Romance languages.
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