milt

English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪlt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• milter
• milt-grown
• milting
• milt-like
• milt-pain
• milt-sick
• milt-sickness
• milt-vein
• miltwaste
• milt-wort
• milty

 

Related terms

• miltsiekte
• miltz

Translations

fish semen

• Bulgarian: млечник m (mlečnik)
• Catalan: llet de peix f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚白／鱼白 (zh) (yúbái)

• Czech: mlíčí n
• Dutch: hom (nl) f
• Faroese: sil n, mjálki m
• Finnish: maiti (fi)
• French: laite (fr) f, laitance (fr) f
• German: Milch (de) f, Fischmilch f
• Icelandic: svil n pl
• Ido: laktumo (io)
• Ingrian: niiska
• Irish: péire m
• Italian: lattume m
• Japanese: 白子 (ja) (しらこ, shirako)
• Korean: 이리 (ko) (iri)
• Maori: huatea
• Polish: mlecz (pl) m
• Portuguese: leita f, láctea f
• Russian: моло́ка (ru) f (molóka), моло́ки (ru) f pl (molóki) (often plural)
• Scottish Gaelic: mealg
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: млије̑ч f / мле̑ч f

  Roman: mlijȇč (sh) f / mlȇč (sh) f

• Spanish: lecha (es) f
• Swedish: mjölke (sv) c
• Turkish: süt (tr), balık sütü (tr)
• Volapük: fitanögem
• Welsh: lleithon m, poten f (SW Wales)

the organ spleen — see spleen

Verb

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.

Translations

impregnate with milt

• Bulgarian: оплождам хайвер (oploždam hajver)

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

1. spleen

Declension

Declension of milt

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	milt	milten	milte	miltene
genitive	milts	miltens	miltes	miltenes

References

• “milt” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪlt/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)

1. spleen

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

milt n (genitive singular milts, plural milt)

1. spleen

Inflection

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

Synonyms

• milti

Etymology 2

From the adjective mildur.

Adjective

milt

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

Adjective

milt

1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

Middle English

Noun

milt

1. Alternative form of milte

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• milte

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

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

1. spleen (organ)

Derived terms

• miltbrann

References

• “milt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Verb

milt

1. third-person singular present indicative of meltan

Swedish

Adjective

milt

1. indefinite neuter singular of mild

Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

1. gently, mildly; blandly