milt

English

Etymology

From Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate to German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjölke. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪlt/
• Rhymes: -ɪlt

Noun

milt (plural milts)

1. The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     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. Fish semen.

Synonyms

• (fish semen): soft roe, white roe

Translations

fish semen

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 魚白 (cmn), 鱼白 (cmn) (yúbái)

• Czech: mlíčí (cs) n
• Dutch: kuit (nl) m
• Finnish: maiti (fi)
• French: laite (fr) f, laitance (fr) f
• German: Milch (de) f, Fischmilch (de) f
• Icelandic: svil (is) n pl
• Irish: péire (ga) m

• Japanese: 白子 (ja) (しらこ, shirako)
• Polish: mlecz (pl) m
• Russian: молока (ru) (molóka) f, молоки (ru) (molóki) f pl (often plural)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: млије̑ч (sh) f / мле̑ч (sh) f

  Roman: mlijȇč (sh) f / mlȇč (sh) f

• Spanish: lecha (es) f
• Swedish: mjölke (sv) c
• Volapük: fitanögem (vo)

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.

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)

1. spleen

Inflection

    Inflection of milt

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

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Dutch

Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje)

1. (anatomy) spleen

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɪl̥t/
• Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

Adjective

milt

1. strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

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Norwegian

Alternative forms

• milte (Nynorsk)

Etymology

From Old Norse milti n.

Noun

milt m

1. spleen (organ)

Inflection

    Inflection of milt

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	milt	milten	milter	miltene
Nynorsk m	milt	milten	miltar	miltane
Nynorsk n	milt	miltet	milt	milta [milti]

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Swedish

Adjective

milt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of mild.

Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)

1. gently, mildly; blandly