molten

• ymolten (archaic, poetic)

From Middle English molten, from Old English molten, ġemolten (“melted, molten”), from Proto-Germanic *multanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *meltaną (“to melt”). Cognate with Scots moltin, Swedish multen.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒltən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈməʊltən/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊltən/
• Rhymes: -əʊltən, -oʊltən

molten (comparative more molten, superlative most molten)

2. Melted, especially due to great heat

   molten metal, wax, rock

   • 2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.

3. Made from a melted substance. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. Glowing red-hot.

• In contemporary English, molten is no longer said of things that melt at comparatively low temperatures, as in molten ice. This is a fairly recent development, however.

• moltenly
• molten chocolate cake
• molten lava cake
• molten plastic
• semimolten

molten

1. (archaic) past participle of melt

• plastic

• Elmton, Melton, loment, melton, tolmen

molten

1. past participle of meltan