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‖ salto|ˈsalto|
[It., leap; cf. saltus.]
1. salto mortale |morˈtale| [It., = fatal jump, somersault], a daring or flying leap (as of a trapeze artist, etc.); also fig., a step that involves risk; an unjustified inference, a ‘leap of faith’.
1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. vii. 361 He really solved it [sc. the question of altruism] only by a salto mortale. a1910W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism (1912) ii. 67 The transcendentalist..holds knowing to consist in a salto mortale across an ‘epistemological chasm’. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism vii. 115 England will take this glorious salto mortale into a more human future. 1952R. Manning-Sanders Eng. Circus iv. xvii. 237 Let us look..at the act of the two Codonas,..after Alfredo, in 1922, had mastered that wonderful feat, the salto mortale, or triple somersault. 1968M. Guybon tr. Solzhenitsyn's First Circle (1971) xxviii. 164 He was escorted up another flight of steps—where, as in a circus during the salto mortale, there were nets to catch him if he jumped off. 1977Language LIII. 44 While the enclitic nature of the copula is beyond question in itself, inferring ‘aphaeresis’ as a phenomenon consequential upon it has involved an epistemological ‘salto mortale’ which has not been very successful.
2. Gymnastics. A somersault.
1972B. Taylor et al. Olympic Gymnastics iii. 35 With more advanced movements (such as a double back salto or double twisting back layout), a spotting belt is sometimes used. 1974Rules of Game 36 Compulsory exercises... Arms backward, two or three running steps into forward piked salto, land on one leg. 1980Sunday Times 20 July 28/2, I will show you a new dismount off the beam... It is double Salto off one leg with half a turn. |