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milt

English edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mɪlt/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun edit

milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)

  1. (countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine […].
    • 1983, Robert Nye, The Facts of Life:
      Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  2. The semen of a male fish.
  3. The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish

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Translations edit

the organ spleen — see spleen

Verb edit

milt (third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted)

  1. (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse milti.

Noun edit

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

  1. spleen

Declension edit

Declension of milt
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative milt milten milte miltene
genitive milts miltens miltes miltenes

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Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch milte, from Old Dutch *milta, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ.

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Noun edit

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

  1. spleen

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Etymology 1 edit

From Old Norse milti, Proto-Germanic *miltiją, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”).

Noun edit

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

  1. spleen
Inflection edit
Declension of milt
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative milt miltið milt miltini
accusative milt miltið milt miltini
dative milti miltinum miltum miltunum
genitive milts miltsins milta miltanna
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Etymology 2 edit

From the adjective mildur.

Adjective edit

milt

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic edit

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milt

  1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Middle English edit

Noun edit

milt

  1. Alternative form of milte

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse milti.

Noun edit

milt m (definite singular milten, indefinite plural milter, definite plural miltene)

  1. spleen (organ)

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From Old Norse milti.

Noun edit

milt m or n (definite singular milten or miltet, indefinite plural miltar or milt, definite plural miltane or milta)

  1. spleen (organ)

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Adjective edit

milt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

Adverb edit

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

  1. gently, mildly; blandly
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