saltar

Etymology

From Latin saltāre.

Verb

saltar (first-person singular indicative present salto, past participle saltáu)

1. to jump

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan saltar, from Latin saltāre. Compare Occitan saltar, sautar; French sauter; Spanish saltar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [səlˈta]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [salˈtaɾ]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

Verb

saltar (first-person singular present salto, first-person singular preterite saltí, past participle saltat)

1. (intransitive) to jump, to leap
2. (intransitive) to hop, to bounce
3. (intransitive) to come off, fall off, pop off
4. (transitive) to jump over, to leap over
5. (transitive, pronominal) to skip, to leave out
6. (transitive, cooking) to sauté

References

• “saltar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “saltar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “saltar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “saltar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese saltar, from Latin saltāre. Probably a doublet of choutar.

Verb

saltar (first-person singular present salto, first-person singular preterite saltei, past participle saltado)

1. to jump

Verb

saltar

1. second-person singular active present indicative of salta
2. third-person singular active present indicative of salta

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto salti, French sauter, Italian saltare, Spanish saltar, ultimately from Latin saltāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salˈtar/

Verb

saltar (present saltas, past saltis, future saltos, conditional saltus, imperative saltez)

1. (intransitive) to leap, jump, bound, hop (upward or forward), vault

Conjugation

More information present, past ...

Conjugation of saltar

		present		past		future
infinitive		saltar		saltir		saltor
tense		saltas		saltis		saltos
conditional		saltus		—		—
imperative		saltez		—		—
adjective active participle		saltanta		saltinta		saltonta
adverbial active participle		saltante		saltinte		saltonte
nominal active participle	singular	saltanto		saltinto		saltonto
	plural	saltanti		saltinti		saltonti

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Verb

saltar (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of saltare

Anagrams

• lastra, starla, trasla

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish saltar, from Latin saltāre (“dance, jump”).

Verb

saltar (Hebrew spelling סאלטאר)

1. (intransitive) to leap; to jump

   La rapoza marona salta rapido sovre el perro perezozo.

   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Adjective

saltar

1. strong feminine nominative/accusative plural of saltr

Verb

saltar

1. second/third-person singular present indicative active of salta

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese saltar, from Latin saltāre (“to dance; to jump”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sal‧tar

Verb

saltar (first-person singular present salto, first-person singular preterite saltei, past participle saltado)

2. (intransitive) to leap; to jump

   Synonym: pular

4. (figurative, intransitive) to jump (to change in value suddenly and greatly)
6. (figurative, intransitive) to be evident

   Synonym: sobressair

Noun

saltar n (plural saltare)

1. Alternative form of sertar

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish saltar, from Latin saltāre (“dance, jump”). Doublet of sotar, a rare regional term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salˈtaɾ/ [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sal‧tar

Verb

saltar (first-person singular present salto, first-person singular preterite salté, past participle saltado)

1. to jump

   Synonym: brincar

2. to skip; miss (a meal etc.)

   saltarse el desayuno ― to skip breakfast

   Para ahorrar tiempo, saltó unas diapositivas.

   To save time, he skipped a few slides.

3. (cooking) to sauté
4. (reflexive) to miss (accidentally)

   Sin querer, se saltó un par de líneas en el texto.

   Unwittingly, he skipped a couple of lines of the text.

5. (reflexive) to break, breach (rules etc.)

   saltarse las normas ― to break the rules

   • 2020 April 1, “De la advertencia a la cárcel: el castigo por saltarse el confinamiento”, in La Vanguardia‎:

     Las fuerzas y cuerpos de seguridad del Estado redactaron hasta la media noche del domingo 234.093 sanciones y detuvieron a 1.986 personas por saltarse el confinamiento.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “saltar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Verb

saltar

1. present indicative of salta

Anagrams

• alstra, lastar, strala

Etymology

From Latin saltāre. Compare Italian saltare.

Verb

saltar

1. (transitive) to jump or leap