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saltum

saltum is a Latin form of saltus, meaning “(1) wooded pasture, glade, mountain pass; (2) leap, jump”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 83 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to his Friends 8.5.1: … optandum; nunc si Parthus movet aliquid, scio non mediocrem fore contentionem; tuus porro exercitus vix unum saltum tueri potest. hanc autem nemo ducit rationem, sed omnia desiderantur ab eo, tamquam nihil denegatum sit ei qu …

All forms of saltus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.