molt

molt (third-person singular simple present molts, present participle molting, simple past and past participle molted)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

molt (plural molts)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

• Noah Webster (1828) “molt”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (J–Z), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.

molt

1. (rare) simple past of melt

• LMTO, Motl

Inherited from Old Catalan molt, from Latin multus.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmol]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmolt]

molt (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. much, many

   Synonym: força

   Antonym: poc

molt

1. very

   Synonym: força

   Antonyms: gaire, gens, poc, una mica

molt m (uncountable)

1. a lot, a great deal, a large amount

   Antonyms: poc, una mica

Inherited from Latin molitus. Compare Occitan mòut.

• mòlt (pre-2016)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɔl]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmɔlt]

molt (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. past participle of moldre

• “molt”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “molt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “molt”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “molt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Irish molt (“wether”), from Proto-Celtic *moltos (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠɞl̪ˠt̪ˠ/, /mˠɞl̪ˠh/^[1]; /mˠɔl̪ˠt̪ˠ/, /mˠɔl̪ˠh/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠɔl̪ˠt̪ˠ/^[3]

molt m (genitive singular moilt, nominative plural moilt)

1. wether
2. (figuratively) sulky, morose person

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “molt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• mult, mout, multe, mot, mut

From Latin multum (adverb), neuter of multus.

molt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular molte)

1. much; many; a lot of

   moltes batailles

   many battles

molt (invariable)

1. very, a lot, a great deal
   • 12th or 13th century, author unknown, Le Bouchier D'Abevile:

     A Abevile ot un bouchier,
     Que si voison orent molt chier.

     In Abbeville there was a butcher,
     Held in high esteem by his neighbors.

• (adjective): maint
• (adverb): maint, biau cop

• French: moult

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (molt)
• mut on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

From Proto-Celtic *moltos (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-, source of French mouton).

• IPA^(key): [mol͈t]

molt m (genitive muilt, nominative plural muilt)

1. ram, wether

• moltán
• moltrad

• Irish: molt
• Manx: mohlt
• Scottish Gaelic: mult

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “molt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

molt m

1. alternative form of mult