saltos

B2 · noun · m

jacks

🤸🏊 saltos = salt-os: sounds like 'salt-ohs' — leaps that make you shake salt

Spanish saltos comes from saltar, to jump, from Latin saltare (to leap or dance). English shares the root in somersault and sally. Plural of salto, so saltos covers jumps, leaps, dives and jumping jacks.

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