spelt

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ˈspɛlt/
Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1Edit

From spell +‎ -t. See spell.

Alternative formsEdit

spelled

VerbEdit

spelt

(chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of spell
- 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, v 1
  Yes, yes; he teaches boys the hornbook. What is a, b, spelt / backward with the horn on his head?

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English spelt, from Old English spelt (“spelt, corn”), from Old Saxon spelta (“spelt”); or from Late Latin spelta (“spelt”), from Frankish *spelta (“spelt”); all from Proto-Germanic *spiltō, *spiltaz (“spelt”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelbʰ-, *(s)pelbʰ-t- (“spelt, spelt meal”). Cognate with German Spelz and Dutch spelt.

NounEdit

spelt (usually uncountable, plural spelts)

A grain, considered either a subspecies of wheat, Triticum aestivum subsp. spelta, or a separate species Triticum spelta or Triticum dicoccon.

TranslationsEdit

a type of wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta

Armenian: հաճար (hy) (hačar)
Basque: espelta
Breton: yell (br) m
Catalan: espelta f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 斯卑爾脫小麥, 斯卑尔脱小麦 (sībēi'ěrtuōxiǎomài)
Czech: špalda (cs) f
Danish: spelt
Dutch: spelt (nl) m
Erzya: виш (viš)
Esperanto: spelto
Estonian: speltanisu
Finnish: spelttivehnä, speltti
French: épeautre (fr) m
Galician: espelta (gl) f, melga f
German: Dinkel (de) m, Spelz (de) m
Greek: όλυρα (el) f (ólyra)
Ancient: ὄλυρα f (ólura)
Hebrew: כוסמין‎

Hungarian: tönkölybúza (hu)
Icelandic: spelt n, speldi n
Italian: spelta f
Latin: ador n
Luxembourgish: Spelz m
Norwegian: spelt
Polish: pszenica orkisz f
Portuguese: espelta (pt) f
Romanian: alac (ro) n
Russian: по́лба (ru) f (pólba)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: прапшеница f, пир

Roman: prapšenica f, pir (sh)
Slovene: pira f
Spanish: espelta f, escanda (es) f
Swedish: dinkel (sv), spelt (sv)
Walloon: speate (wa) f

Etymology 3Edit

From Middle High German spalden, or Old Norse spald.

NounEdit

spelt (plural spelts)

(dialect, Northern England, Scotland) A thin piece of wood or metal; a splinter.
(metalworking) Spelter.

VerbEdit

spelt (third-person singular simple present spelts, present participle spelting, simple past and past participle spelted)

(obsolete) To split; to break; to spalt.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for spelt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)