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salti mortali

salti mortali is the plural of salto mortale.

Meaning of salto mortale

Noun

salto mortale (plural salti mortali)

  1. A dangerous and daring jump with possibly lethal outcome.
  2. (figuratively) A risky, dangerous or crucial step or undertaking.
    • I take shame to myself…for having been more taken by the salti mortali* of a waiter who summed up my account at a Paduan restaurant, than by all the strategies with which the city has been many times captured and recaptured.
      * Salti mortali are those prodigious efforts of mental arithmetic by which...1867 July, William Dean Howells, “At Padua”, in The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XX, № CXVII, chapter i, page 25/1

Questions about salti mortali

What is salti mortali the plural of?
Salti mortali is the plural of salto mortale.

Words near salti mortali in the dictionary

  1. saltgrass
  2. saltgrasses
  3. Salthill
  4. salthouse
  5. salthouses
  6. salti mortali
  7. salticid
  8. salticids
  9. saltie
  10. saltier
  11. saltierra

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