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Webster 1913 Edition

Somerset

{

Som′er-sault

,

Som′er-set

, }
Noun.
[F.
soubresaut
a jump, leap, OF.
soubresault
, It.
soprassalto
an overleap, fr. L.
supra
over +
saltus
a leap, fr.
salire
to leap; or the French may be from Sp.
sobresalto
a sudden asault, a surprise. See
Supra
, and
Salient
.]
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
[Written also
summersault
,
sommerset
,
summerset
, etc.]
“The vaulter’s sombersalts.”
Donne.
Now I'll only
Make him break his neck in doing a
sommerset
.
Beau. & Fl.

Webster 1828 Edition

Somerset

SOM'ERSAULT

, SOM'ERSET,
Noun.
[L super and salio, to leap.] A leap by which a person jumps from a highth, turns over his head and falls upon his feet.

Definition 2025

Somerset

Somerset

See also: somerset

English

Proper noun

Somerset

  1. A maritime county in the west of England bordered by Gloucestershire, Bristol, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, the Severn estuary and the Bristol channel.
  2. A county in central New Jersey.

Translations

somerset

somerset

See also: Somerset

English

Noun

somerset ‎(plural somersets)

  1. Archaic spelling of somersault.

Etymology

From Old English Sumorsǣte, which is short for Sumortūnsǣte, meaning "the people living at or dependent upon Sumortūn (Somerton)". An alternative suggestion is that the name derives from *Seo-mere-sætan meaning "settlers by the sea lakes"

Somerset shown in relation to England and Wales

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsʌm.ə(ɹ).sɛt/

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