LEAP Copy link • LEAP 1. s. saltus: to take a leap, saltum dare (Ov.); saltu uti (Cic.). 2. v. exsilire; exsultare: to leap with joy, gaudio exsilire; gaudio or laetitiā exsultare: my heart leaped (for joy), cor meum coepit in pectus emicare (Plaut., Aul., 4, 3, 4): to leap down, desilire ex or de re (☞ rarely with a simple ablative in prose; Vid: Drak. Liv. 35, 34, 10): to leap to or upon, assilire ad aliquid, or alicui rei (assultare post-Augustan).