🇮🇹 Italian

salto

masculine

il salto

jump

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salto
/il ˈsalto/
← masculine feminine →

How do you say salto in Italian?

IPA
/il ˈsalto/

How do you pronounce salto in Italian?

salto is pronounced /il ˈsalto/ in Italian.

Example sentences

Il salto alto è una disciplina olimpica molto difficile.

The high jump is a very difficult Olympic discipline.

Quel salto acrobatico era davvero spettacolare e pericoloso.

That acrobatic jump was truly spectacular and dangerous.

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Why is it masculine?

Salto is masculine because it derives from the Latin "saltus" (a leap or jump), which belonged to the second declension masculine nouns ending in -us, a pattern that typically produces masculine nouns in Italian. This Latin masculine gender was preserved as the word evolved into modern Italian.

What is the Italian word for jump?

The Italian word for jump is il salto — masculine.

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