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milt

English

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Etymology

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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.

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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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the organ spleen — see spleen

Verb

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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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Etymology

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From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

  1. spleen

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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

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Etymology

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

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milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

  1. spleen

Faroese

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

  1. spleen
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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

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From the adjective mildur.

Adjective

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milt

  1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic

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milt

  1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Middle English

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milt

  1. Alternative form of milte

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse milti.

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

  1. spleen (organ)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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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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Old English

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Verb

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milt

  1. third-person singular present indicative of meltan

Swedish

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Adjective

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milt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

Adverb

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milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

  1. gently, mildly; blandly
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