sauter

See also: Sauter

English

Etymology 1

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. Obsolete form of psalter.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French sauter.

Verb

sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)

1. Dated form of sauté.

Etymology 3

Due to American pronunciation.

Noun

sauter (uncountable)

1. Misspelling of solder.

Verb

sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)

1. Misspelling of solder.

Anagrams

• auster, Uretas, Auster, Sutera, Atreus, Tauers, urates

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.te/

• Audio:

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Verb

sauter

1. (intransitive) to jump, leap

   Je saute sur mon lit. ― I'm jumping on my bed.

2. (transitive) to jump over
3. (transitive) to sauté
4. (transitive, slang) to bang, hump, have sex with

   Je l’ai sauté(e) sur mon lit. ― I banged him/her on my bed.

5. (transitive) to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones)

   Leur fille est brillante, elle a sauté deux années.

   Their daughter is brilliant, she has skipped two years

6. (intransitive) to explode

Conjugation

Conjugation of sauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sauter
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sautant /so.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		sauté /so.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saute /sot/	sautes /sot/	saute /sot/	sautons /so.tɔ̃/	sautez /so.te/	sautent /sot/
	imperfect	sautais /so.tɛ/	sautais /so.tɛ/	sautait /so.tɛ/	sautions /so.tjɔ̃/	sautiez /so.tje/	sautaient /so.tɛ/
	past historic2	sautai /so.te/	sautas /so.ta/	sauta /so.ta/	sautâmes /so.tam/	sautâtes /so.tat/	sautèrent /so.tɛʁ/
	future	sauterai /so.tʁe/	sauteras /so.tʁa/	sautera /so.tʁa/	sauterons /so.tʁɔ̃/	sauterez /so.tʁe/	sauteront /so.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sauterais /so.tʁɛ/	sauterais /so.tʁɛ/	sauterait /so.tʁɛ/	sauterions /so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sauteriez /so.tə.ʁje/	sauteraient /so.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	saute /sot/	sautes /sot/	saute /sot/	sautions /so.tjɔ̃/	sautiez /so.tje/	sautent /sot/
	imperfect2	sautasse /so.tas/	sautasses /so.tas/	sautât /so.ta/	sautassions /so.ta.sjɔ̃/	sautassiez /so.ta.sje/	sautassent /so.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saute /sot/	—	sautons /so.tɔ̃/	sautez /so.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir past participle	simple imperative of avoir past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• corde à sauter
• et que ça saute
• faire sauter
• faire sauter la banque
• reculer pour mieux sauter
• sautable
• sauter aux yeux
• sauter du coq à l’âne
• sauter le pas
• sauterie
• sauteur
• sauteuse
• sautoir
• se faire sauter la cervelle

 

Related terms

• assaut
• saut
• saillir

Descendants

• → Turkish: sote (via past participle)

Further reading

• “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• autres, restau, ruâtes, sature, saturé, tueras

Middle English

Alternative forms

• psauter, psautere, psawter, psawtere, salter, sautyer, sawteer, sawter
• psalteer, psaltyre, psaulter, psaultier, saulter, sauteer, sautier, sautiere, sautir, sawghter, sawtar, sawtere, sawtier, sawtiere, sawtire, sawtur, sawtyre (Late Middle English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈteːr/, /ˈsau̯tər/

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. The Biblical book of Psalms; the section of the Bible containing psalms.
2. A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
3. A psalter; a book containing psalms and related material.
4. A psaltery (lute-like string instrument)

Descendants

• English: psalter

References

• “sautē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin saltō, saltāre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

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Verb

sauter

1. (Jersey) to jump

Scots

Etymology

saut (“salt”) ‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɑːtər], [ˈsɔːtər]
• (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA^(key): [ˈsaːtər]

Noun

sauter (plural sauters)

1. salter (maker of salt)
2. one who can do severe things