malter
English
Etymology
From Middle English maltare, malter, maltar; equivalent to malt + -er.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɒltə/, /ˈmɔːltə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɔl.tɚ/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɑl.tɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ), -ɔːltə(ɹ)
- Homophone: Malta (non-rhotic)
Noun
malter (plural malters)
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From malt + -er, borrowed through Frankish from Proto-Germanic *maltą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mal.te/
Audio: (file)
Verb
malter
- to malt
Conjugation
Conjugation of malter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | malter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | maltant /mal.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | malté /mal.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | malte /malt/ |
maltes /malt/ |
malte /malt/ |
maltons /mal.tɔ̃/ |
maltez /mal.te/ |
maltent /malt/ |
| imperfect | maltais /mal.tɛ/ |
maltais /mal.tɛ/ |
maltait /mal.tɛ/ |
maltions /mal.tjɔ̃/ |
maltiez /mal.tje/ |
maltaient /mal.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | maltai /mal.te/ |
maltas /mal.ta/ |
malta /mal.ta/ |
maltâmes /mal.tam/ |
maltâtes /mal.tat/ |
maltèrent /mal.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | malterai /mal.tə.ʁe/ |
malteras /mal.tə.ʁa/ |
maltera /mal.tə.ʁa/ |
malterons /mal.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
malterez /mal.tə.ʁe/ |
malteront /mal.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | malterais /mal.tə.ʁɛ/ |
malterais /mal.tə.ʁɛ/ |
malterait /mal.tə.ʁɛ/ |
malterions /mal.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
malteriez /mal.tə.ʁje/ |
malteraient /mal.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | malte /malt/ |
maltes /malt/ |
malte /malt/ |
maltions /mal.tjɔ̃/ |
maltiez /mal.tje/ |
maltent /malt/ |
| imperfect2 | maltasse /mal.tas/ |
maltasses /mal.tas/ |
maltât /mal.ta/ |
maltassions /mal.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
maltassiez /mal.ta.sje/ |
maltassent /mal.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | malte /malt/ |
— | maltons /mal.tɔ̃/ |
maltez /mal.te/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “malter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from Bavarian and Austrian German German Malter, a metathetic variant of standard German Mörtel, in turn from Latin mortarium.[1] First attested in Hungarian in 1787.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɒltɛr]
- Hyphenation: mal‧ter
- Rhymes: -ɛr
Noun
malter (plural malterek)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | malter | malterek |
| accusative | maltert | maltereket |
| dative | malternek | maltereknek |
| instrumental | malterrel | malterekkel |
| causal-final | malterért | malterekért |
| translative | malterré | malterekké |
| terminative | malterig | malterekig |
| essive-formal | malterként | malterekként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | malterben | malterekben |
| superessive | malteren | maltereken |
| adessive | malternél | maltereknél |
| illative | malterbe | malterekbe |
| sublative | malterre | malterekre |
| allative | malterhez | malterekhez |
| elative | malterből | malterekből |
| delative | malterről | malterekről |
| ablative | maltertől | malterektől |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
malteré | maltereké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
malteréi | malterekéi |
| possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person sing. | malterem | maltereim |
| 2nd person sing. | maltered | maltereid |
| 3rd person sing. | maltere | malterei |
| 1st person plural | malterünk | maltereink |
| 2nd person plural | malteretek | maltereitek |
| 3rd person plural | malterük | maltereik |
Related terms
- mozsár (“mortar”, a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 malter in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- malter in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Mörtel, with metathesis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mǎlter/
- Hyphenation: mal‧ter
Noun
màlter m inan (Cyrillic spelling ма̀лтер)
- (uncountable) mortar
Declension
Declension of malter
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | malter |
| genitive | maltera |
| dative | malteru |
| accusative | malter |
| vocative | maltere |
| locative | malteru |
| instrumental | malterom |
References
- “malter”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025