Alternative spellings Leap: Leep, leape. Leapt: Leapped, lept. Etymology Leap: From old english hlýp Leapt: Unknown, probable alternate spelling of Leaped (from Leap and suffix -ed). Pronunciation Leap: IPA:/liːp/ Leaped: IPA:/liːpd/ Leapt: IPA:/lɛpt/ Verb to leap (leapt / leaped, leapt / leaped) Past tense and past participle: Leapt or leaped with no clear rule to favour either form. The -t form is much more common in the UK, than in the US. To jump from one location to another. Quotations c. 1450: It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep - anonymous, Merlin. 1600: I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer? - anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, Act 4. 1783: Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day. - Hugh Blair, from the Illiad in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres Lecture 4, page 65. 1999: It is better to leap into the void. - Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78. Synonyms jump, spring Derived terms leapfrog, leap year. Translations Breton: lammat, sailhañ Bulgarian: скачам Dutch: springen, wippen Finnish: hypätä, loikata French: sauter, bondir German: springen, hüpfen Hebrew: קפץ Indonesian: lompat, loncat, melompat, meloncat Japanese: 飛躍する (ひやくする, hiyaku-suru) Portuguese: saltar Romanian: a sări, a sălta Spanish: saltar Vietnamese: nhảy (lên) Noun The act of leaping or jumping The distance traversed by a leap or jump Quotations 1969: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon; July 20, 1969. Translations Breton: lamm m, sailh m (1) Bulgarian: скок m (1) Finnish: hyppy, loikka (1,2) French: saut m, bond m (1) German: Sprung m (1,2) Polish: sus m (1,2) Portuguese: salto m, pulo m Spanish: salto Vietnamese: (sự, bước) nhảy
to leap (leapt / leaped, leapt / leaped)
Past tense and past participle: Leapt or leaped with no clear rule to favour either form. The -t form is much more common in the UK, than in the US.
