milt

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English

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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 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

the organ spleen — see spleen

Verb

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.

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

  1. spleen

Declension

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

References

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

  1. spleen

Faroese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

  1. spleen
Inflection
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
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From the adjective mildur.

Adjective

milt

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Adjective

milt

  1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Middle English

Noun

milt

  1. Alternative form of milte

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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

  1. spleen (organ)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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

Adjective

milt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

  1. gently, mildly; blandly
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