salto mortale

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Definition von salto mortale im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

a dangerous and daring jump with possibly lethal outcome

a risky, dangerous or crucial step or undertaking

The frenzied, suggestible, gregarious, subconscious self, freed from all rational restraints, celebrated its delirious orgies, its corybantic bacchanalia, held its mad salto mortale over the grave of crucified humanity.

jump of death, nickname for a very daring jump made by an athlete in which he spins in the air

Silbentrennung

Sal·to mortale

Etymologie

() From Italian salto (“leap”) + mortale (“deadly”).