milt

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.

• IPA^(key): /mɪlt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlt

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.

• (spleen): spleen; lien (uncommon)
• (fish semen): soft roe, white roe

• miltsiekte
• miltz

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.

From Old Norse milti.

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

1. spleen

• “milt” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /mɪlt/

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• Hyphenation: milt
• Rhymes: -ɪlt
• Homophones: mild, Milt

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

1. spleen

• IPA^(key): /mɪl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

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

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

1. spleen

• milti

From the adjective mildur.

milt

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

• IPA^(key): /mɪl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

milt

1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

milt

1. alternative form of milte

From Old Norse milti.

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

1. spleen (organ)

• miltbrann

• “milt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• milte

From Old Norse milti.

milt m or n (definite singular milten or miltet, indefinite plural miltar or milt, definite plural miltane or milta)

1. spleen (organ)

• miltbrann

• “milt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

milt

1. third-person singular present indicative of meltan

milt

1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

1. gently, mildly; blandly