# 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: /mɪlt/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlt

### Noun

milt (countable and uncountable, plural milts)
* (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.
* The semen of a male fish.
* 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
### Verb

milt (third-person singular simple present milts, present participle milting, simple past and past participle milted)
* (transitive) To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

#### Translations
## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

### Noun

milt c (singular definite milten, plural indefinite milte)
* spleen

#### Declension
### References

* “milt” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪlt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: milt
* Rhymes: -ɪlt
* Homophones: mild, Milt

### Noun

milt f (plural milten, diminutive miltje n)
* spleen

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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)
* spleen

##### Synonyms

* milti

### Etymology 2

From the adjective mildur.

#### Adjective

milt
* neuter nominative/accusative singular of mildur

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪl̥t/
* Rhymes: -ɪl̥t

### Adjective

milt
* strong neuter singular nominative of mildur

## Middle English
### Noun

milt
* Alternative form of milte

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse milti.

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* miltbrann

### References

* “milt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Verb

milt
* third-person singular present indicative of meltan

## Swedish
### Adjective

milt
* indefinite neuter singular of mild

### Adverb

milt (comparative mildare, superlative mildast)
* gently, mildly; blandly