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1. salto mortale n. /morˈtale/ [Italian, = fatal jump, somersault] a daring or flying leap (as of a trapeze artist, etc.); also figurative, a step that involves risk; an unjustified inference, a ‘leap of faith’.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > somersault
supersault1503
somersault1530
tumbling cast1530
sobersaulta1533
somerset1591
turn-over1660
pitch-pole1842
spin1842
salto mortale1896
flip-flop1902
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > a risky undertaking
adventurec1300
venturea1566
adventry1616
risk1666
fenda1724
forlorn hope1768
long chance1854
salto mortale1896
crap shoot1958
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > one who or that which > a daring leap
salto mortale1896
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [noun] > logical fallacy > piece of false reasoning
fallacy1532
paralogism1565
elench1570
argal1861
salto mortale1896
1896 W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's Syst. vii. 361 He really solved it [sc. the question of altruism] only by a salto mortale.
1912 W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism ii. 67 The transcendentalist..holds knowing to consist in a salto mortale across an ‘epistemological chasm’.
1937 J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism vii. 115 England will take this glorious salto mortale into a more human future.
1952 R. 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.
1968 M. Guybon tr. A. Solzhenitsyn 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.
1977 Language 53 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.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > [noun] > actions or positions
vaulting1531
cross-step1728
still-vaulting1854
roll1858
trampolining1867
planche1878
handstand1890
rollover1891
trapezing1894
press1901
straddle1905
kip1909
upstart1909
headstand1915
round-off1917
neck-roll1920
undergrip1920
pike1928
swivel hips1943
thigh lift1949
overswing1955
shoulder stand1956
stand1956
floor exercise1957
squat1959
turnaround1959
salto1972
Tsukahara1972
1972 B. 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.
1974 Rules of Game 36 Compulsory exercises... Arms backward, two or three running steps into forward piked salto, land on one leg.
1980 Sunday 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.
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