saltando

[ sahl-tahn-doh ]

adjective

1. (of a performance with a stringed instrument) playing each note staccato by bouncing the bow on the strings.

adverb

1. in a saltando manner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of saltando¹

< Italian, gerund of saltare to jump < Latin saltāre to dance, leap; saltant

Example Sentences

The first violinist, Christopher Otto, was extraordinary at the saltando technique, bouncing the bow on the string in a kind of controlled stutter required in “Gran Torso.”

From New York Times

As the symbolic dancers of the ancients, who narrated an elaborate story, Saltando Hecubam, or Saltando Loadamiam, interwove the passion of the advancing incidents into the intricacies of the figure—something in the same way, it was understood by all men, that the Oracle did not so much evade the difficulty by a dark form of words, as he revealed his own hieroglyphic nature.

From Project Gutenberg

As the symbolic dancers of the ancients, who narrated an elaborate story, Saltando Hecubam, or Saltando Loadamiam, interwove the passion of the advancing incidents into the intricacies of the figure—something in the same way, it was understood by all men, that the Oracle did not so much evade the difficulty by a dark form of words, as he revealed his own hieroglyphic nature.

From Project Gutenberg