milt

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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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Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

  1. spleen

Faroese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

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]

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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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Swedish[edit]

Adjective[edit]

milt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

Adverb[edit]

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

  1. gently, mildly; blandly
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