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

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

• 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