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English

Etymology

From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-Germanic *malt? (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (mlad?, “tender; young”), Russian ??????? (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian ?????? (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?lt/, /m?lt/
• Rhymes: -??lt

Noun

malt (countable and uncountable, plural malts)

1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.
2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII:

     Oh many a peer of England brews

     Livelier liquor than the Muse,

     And malt does more than Milton can

     To justify God's ways to man.

3. (US, informal) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

   Synonym: malted

4. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

malt (third-person singular simple present malts, present participle malting, simple past and past participle malted)

1. (transitive) To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.
2. (intransitive) To become malt.
3. (intransitive, dated, humorous) To drink malt liquor.

Translations

Anagrams

• MLAT, Mat'l, matl

Danish

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

malt m or n (plural malts, diminutive maltje n)

1. (especially in diminutive) malt beer

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?lt/

Verb

malt

1. inflection of malen:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative

Latvian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). See also Proto-Slavic *mold?.

Verb

malt (tr., 1st conj., pres. ma?u, mal, ma?, past malu)

1. to grind
2. to mill
3. to mince
4. to purr

Conjugation

Middle English

Alternative forms

• malte, mault, maulte

Etymology

From Old English mealt.

Noun

malt (uncountable)

1. grain

Descendants

• English: malt
• Yola: mault

References

• “malt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse malt

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

Etymology 2

Verb

malt

1. past participle of male

References

• “malt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse malt

Noun

malt n (definite singular maltet)

1. malt (grain prepared for brewing and distilling)

References

• “malt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse malt, from Proto-Germanic *malt?.

Noun

malt n

1. malt

Verb

malt

1. supine of mala.

Anagrams

• lamt

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (definite accusative malt?, plural maltlar)

1. malt

Declension

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [malt]

Noun

malt (nominative plural malts)

1. malt (malted grain)

Declension

Synonyms

• malet (obsolete)

Derived terms

See also

• bir
• humul

English

Noun

multum (uncountable)

1. An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.

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Derived terms

• hard multum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?mul.tum/, [?m???t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?mul.tum/, [?mul?t?um]

Etymology 1

Adverbial accusative of multus (“much, many”).

Adverb

multum (not comparable)

1. much
2. very much, a lot

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

multum

1. accusative masculine singular of multus
2. accusative neuter singular of multus
3. nominative neuter singular of multus

References

• multum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• multum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• multum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• multum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin multum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mul.tum/

Numeral

multum

1. many, a lot of [+genitive]

Further reading

• multum in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• multum in Polish dictionaries at PWN