subsultory

adjective

sub·​sul·​to·​ry

-tərē

: involving irregularity of movement or advance : bounding, leaping

Word History

Etymology

Latin subsultus (past participle of subsilire to leap up, from sub- up + -silire, from salire to leap) + English -ory

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