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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v?lt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /v??lt/
• Homophone: vault

Etymology 1

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Italian Volta.

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical potential and electromotive force (voltage); the potential difference across a conductor when a current of one ampere uses one watt of power. Symbol: V

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

French volte

Noun

volt (plural volts)

1. A circular tread; a gait by which a horse going sideways round a centre makes two concentric tracks.
2. (fencing) A sudden movement to avoid a thrust.

Noun

volt (uncountable)

1. A colour similar to lime often used in Nike products.

Anagrams

• LVOT, VTOL

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?v?lt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?b?l/

Etymology 1

From the past participle of Old Catalan voldre, from Latin volvere. Corresponds to Vulgar Latin *voltus, from *vol?tus, from Latin vol?tus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. turn, round

Related terms

• volta
• voltar

Etymology 2

Named for Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Czech

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Rhymes: -olt

Noun

volt m

1. volt

Related terms

• See voluta

Further reading

• volt in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• volt in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

Noun

volt m (plural volts, diminutive voltje n)

1. volt (unit)

Derived terms

• elektronvolt

Faroese

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?l?t/
• Rhymes: -?l?t

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, plural volt)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

French

Etymology

From English volt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?lt/

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt

Further reading

• “volt” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural [please provide])

1. volt

Synonyms

• voltio

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?volt]
• Hyphenation: volt
• Rhymes: -olt

Etymology 1

From the same Proto-Finno-Ugric *wole- or *woli- as Finnish and Estonian olla. Compare similarities with Old Hungarian vola, later vala (same meaning).

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular indicative past indefinite of van

Participle

volt

1. past participle of van

Adjective

volt (not comparable)

1. ex-, former, late, past, sometime

Particle

volt

1. (archaic) Used after a past-tense verb form to express past perfect.
   • 1880 (translation), 411 BC (original), János Arany (translator), Aristophanes (original), A n?k ünnepe (Thesmophoriazusae).^[1] English translation: 2007, George Theodoridis.^[2]

     A vén gaz asszony meg, ki hozta volt, ¶ Fut vigyorogva a férjhez s kiáltja:

     Then the old woman picks it up [literally, “who had brought it”] and rushes out to the husband! She puts on a big grin on her face and tells him straight out,

Etymology 2

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt (plural voltok)

1. volt (unit of measure, symbol: V)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• (the past form of van or an auxiliary particle expressing past perfect): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (former, previous, bygone): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (unit): volt in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

Named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta.

Noun

volt n (genitive singular volts, nominative plural volt)

1. volt

Declension

Further reading

• volt in Icelandic dictionaries at ISLEX

Italian

Etymology

From English volt, itself named after Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, from Volta.

Noun

volt m (invariable)

1. volt

Latin

Verb

volt

1. third-person singular present active indicative of vol?

References

• volt in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• volt in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• vout

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. figure
2. face
3. holy image

References

• Levy, Emil. 1923. Petit dictionnaire provençal-français. Heidelberg: Winter. Page 386.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin vultus.

Noun

volt m (oblique plural volz or voltz, nominative singular volz or voltz, nominative plural volt)

1. face

Synonyms

• face, visage

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (volt)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• vóltio (rare)

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (plural volts)

1. volt (unit of measure)

Romanian

Etymology

From French volt.

Noun

volt m (plural vol?i)

1. volt

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. volt

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

Named after the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the surname, see Volta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??t/

Noun

volt m (genitive singular voltu, nominative plural volty, genitive plural voltov, declension pattern of dub)

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

Declension

Derived terms

• voltový
• voltáž

Further reading

• volt in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Swedish

Etymology

From French volte, from Italian volta (“a turn, rotation”).

Noun

volt c

1. a somersault; a jump where one turns one or more times forwards (or backwards)
2. (by extension) The action where something of large size turns over. See slå en volt.

   Bilen körde av vägen och slog en volt.

   The car went off the road and turned over a whole turn.

Declension

Anagrams

• tolv

Tatar

Etymology

From English volt

Noun

volt

1. volt, the SI unit of electric potential.

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Declension

English

Etymology 1

Verb

molt (third-person singular simple present molts, present participle molting, simple past and past participle molted)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

Noun

molt (plural molts)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “molt”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language

Etymology 2

Verb

molt

1. (rare) simple past tense of melt

Anagrams

• LMTO

Catalan

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin multus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?molt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?mol/

Adjective

molt (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. much, many

   Synonym: força

   Antonym: poc

Derived terms

Adverb

molt

1. very

   Synonym: força

   Antonyms: gaire, gens, poc, una mica

Noun

molt m (uncountable)

1. a lot, a great deal, a large amount

   Antonyms: poc, una mica

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m?lt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?l/

Verb

molt m (feminine molta, masculine plural molts, feminine plural moltes)

1. (2016 spelling reform) Alternative spelling of mòlt (“ground”)

Further reading

• “molt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “molt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “molt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish molt (“wether”), from Proto-Celtic *molto- (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-).

Noun

molt m (genitive singular moilt, nominative plural moilt)

1. wether
2. (figuratively) sulky, morose person

Declension

Mutation

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin multum (adverb), neuter of multus.

Adjective

molt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular molte)

1. much; many; a lot of

Declension

Adverb

molt (invariable)

1. very, a lot, a great deal

Synonyms

• (adjective): maint
• (adverb): maint, biau cop

Descendants

• French: moult

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (molt)
• mut on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *moltos (“sheep”) (compare Welsh mollt, Gaulish *multon-, source of French mouton).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mol?t/

Noun

molt m (genitive muilt, nominative plural muilt)

1. ram, wether

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Irish: molt
• Manx: mohlt
• Scottish Gaelic: mult

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “molt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

molt m

1. Alternative form of mult