"milt" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /mɪlt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milt.wav [Southern-England] Forms: milts [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlt 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)meld-}}, {{inh|en|enm|milte}} Middle English milte, {{inh|en|ang|milte}} Old English milte, {{m|ang|milt||milt, spleen}} milt (“milt, spleen”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*miltijā}} Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, {{m|gmw-pro|*meltā}} *meltā, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*meltǭ||spleen}} Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*(s)meld-||to beat, grind, crush, weaken}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”), {{cog|de|Milz}} German Milz, {{cog|nl|milt}} Dutch milt, {{cog|da|milt}} Danish milt, {{cog|no|milt}} Norwegian milt, {{cog|sv|mjälte}} Swedish mjälte, {{m|sq|mëlçi||liver}} mëlçi (“liver”), {{m|it|milza||spleen}} milza (“spleen”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)
  1. (countable) The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Foods, Organs Categories (lifeform): Animal body parts Synonyms (spleen): spleen, lien [uncommon]
    Sense id: en-milt-en-noun-I80EU6al Disambiguation of Foods: 16 36 15 33 Disambiguation of Organs: 42 26 26 6 Disambiguation of Animal body parts: 40 28 27 5 Disambiguation of 'spleen': 93 0 7
  2. The semen of a male fish. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods, Ichthyology Synonyms (fish semen): soft roe, white roe Translations (fish semen): млечник (mlečnik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), llet de peix [feminine] (Catalan), 魚白 (Chinese Mandarin), 鱼白 (yúbái) (Chinese Mandarin), mlíčí [neuter] (Czech), hom [feminine] (Dutch), sil [neuter] (Faroese), mjálki [masculine] (Faroese), maiti (Finnish), laite [feminine] (French), laitance [feminine] (French), Milch [feminine] (German), Fischmilch [feminine] (German), svil [neuter, plural] (Icelandic), laktumo (Ido), péire [masculine] (Irish), 白子 (shirako) (alt: しらこ) (Japanese), 이리 (iri) (Korean), huatea (Maori), mlecz [masculine] (Polish), leita [feminine] (Portuguese), láctea [feminine] (Portuguese), моло́ка (molóka) [feminine] (Russian), моло́ки (molóki) [feminine, often, plural] (Russian), млије̑ч [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), мле̑ч [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mlijȇč [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), mlȇč [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), lecha [feminine] (Spanish), mjölke [common-gender] (Swedish), süt (Turkish), balık sütü (Turkish), fitanögem (Volapük), lleithon [masculine] (Welsh), poten (english: SW Wales) [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-milt-en-noun-rnH1exBs Disambiguation of Foods: 16 36 15 33 Disambiguation of Ichthyology: 24 43 24 9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 56 21 3 Disambiguation of 'fish semen': 0 66 34 Disambiguation of 'fish semen': 0 66 34
  3. The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Foods
    Sense id: en-milt-en-noun-mvTIf4t8 Disambiguation of Foods: 16 36 15 33
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: miltsiekte, miltz
Derived forms: milter, milt-grown, milting, milt-like, milt-pain, milt-sick, milt-sickness, milt-vein, miltwaste, milt-wort, milty

Verb

IPA: /mɪlt/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-milt.wav [Southern-England] Forms: milts [present, singular, third-person], milting [participle, present], milted [participle, past], milted [past]
Rhymes: -ɪlt 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)meld-}}, {{inh|en|enm|milte}} Middle English milte, {{inh|en|ang|milte}} Old English milte, {{m|ang|milt||milt, spleen}} milt (“milt, spleen”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*miltijā}} Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, {{m|gmw-pro|*meltā}} *meltā, {{inh|en|gem-pro|*meltǭ||spleen}} Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*(s)meld-||to beat, grind, crush, weaken}} Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”), {{cog|de|Milz}} German Milz, {{cog|nl|milt}} Dutch milt, {{cog|da|milt}} Danish milt, {{cog|no|milt}} Norwegian milt, {{cog|sv|mjälte}} Swedish mjälte, {{m|sq|mëlçi||liver}} mëlçi (“liver”), {{m|it|milza||spleen}} milza (“spleen”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Foods Translations (impregnate with milt): оплождам хайвер (oploždam hajver) (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-milt-en-verb-xj-jMt7~ Disambiguation of Foods: 16 36 15 33

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "code": "io",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "alt": "しらこ",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shirako",
          "sense": "fish semen",
          "word": "白子"
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "iri",
          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "word": "leita"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "fish semen",
          "tags": [
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "molóka",
          "sense": "fish semen",
          "tags": [
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          "_dis1": "0 66 34",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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          "sense": "fish semen",
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      "word": "miltsiekte"
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      "word": "miltz"
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        "uncountable"
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      "sense": "fish semen",
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      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "млечник"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "llet de peix"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "魚白"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yúbái",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "鱼白"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "code": "nl",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "fo",
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      "code": "fi",
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    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "laitance"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "Milch"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "svil"
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    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "laktumo"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "péire"
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    {
      "alt": "しらこ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shirako",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "白子"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "iri",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "이리"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "huatea"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "mlecz"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "leita"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "láctea"
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      "code": "ru",
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      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "моло́ка"
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    {
      "code": "ru",
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        "plural"
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      "word": "моло́ки"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "млије̑ч"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "мле̑ч"
    },
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mlijȇč"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mlȇč"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lecha"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "mjölke"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "süt"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "balık sütü"
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    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "word": "fitanögem"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lleithon"
    },
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      "code": "cy",
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      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "fish semen",
      "tags": [
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    "Rhymes:English/ɪlt",
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    "en:Animal body parts",
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    "en:Organs"
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      "args": {
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        "3": "milte"
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      "expansion": "Middle English milte",
      "name": "inh"
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        "3": "",
        "4": "milt, spleen"
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      "name": "m"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "3": "*miltijā"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "inh"
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      "name": "inh"
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        "2": "Milz"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "milt"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch milt",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "milt"
      },
      "expansion": "Danish milt",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "no",
        "2": "milt"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "mjälte"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish mjälte",
      "name": "cog"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sq",
        "2": "mëlçi",
        "3": "",
        "4": "liver"
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      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "milza",
        "3": "",
        "4": "spleen"
      },
      "expansion": "milza (“spleen”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "milts",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "milting",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "milted",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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        "past"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt."
      ],
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        [
          "impregnate",
          "impregnate"
        ]
      ],
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        "(transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt."
      ],
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        "transitive"
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      "ipa": "/mɪlt/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪlt"
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "oploždam hajver",
      "sense": "impregnate with milt",
      "word": "оплождам хайвер"
    }
  ],
  "word": "milt"
}

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