saltar

From Latin saltāre.

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

1. to jump

• blincar

• saltu

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

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

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• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

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

• salt
• saltació

• “saltar”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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.

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

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

1. to jump

• salto

saltar

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

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

• IPA^(key): /salˈtar/

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

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

saltar (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of saltare

• lastra, starla, trasla

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

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.

saltar

1. strong feminine nominative/accusative plural of saltr

saltar

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

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

• Hyphenation: sal‧tar

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

2. (intransitive) to leap; to jump

   Synonym: pular

4. (Portugal, transitive) to skip

   Synonym: (Brazil) pular

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

   Synonym: sobressair

saltar n (plural saltare)

1. alternative form of sertar

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

• IPA^(key): /salˈtaɾ/ [sal̪ˈt̪aɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: sal‧tar

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^[1]:

     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.

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• “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], 10 December 2024

saltar

1. present indicative of salta

• alstra, lastar, strala

From Latin saltāre. Compare Italian saltare.

saltar

1. (transitive) to jump or leap

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.