molt

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

1. US standard spelling of moult.

molt (plural molts)

1. US standard spelling of moult.

• molt in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.

molt

1. (rare) simple past tense of melt

• LMTO, Motl

From Old Catalan molt, from Latin multus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmolt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmol/

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

1. much, many

   Synonym: força

   Antonym: poc

molt

1. very

   Synonym: força

   Antonyms: gaire, gens, poc, una mica

molt m (uncountable)

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

   Antonyms: poc, una mica

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔlt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔl/

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

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

• “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, 2023
• “molt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mɞl̪ˠt̪ˠ/, /mɞl̪ˠh/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mɔl̪ˠt̪ˠ/

molt m (genitive singular moilt, nominative plural moilt)

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “molt”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 50

From Latin multum (adverb), neuter of multus.

molt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular molte)

1. much; many; a lot of

   moltes batailles

   many battles

molt (invariable)

1. very, a lot, a great deal
   • 12th or 13th century, author unknown, Le Bouchier D'Abevile:

     A Abevile ot un bouchier,
     Que si voison orent molt chier.

     In Abbeville there was a butcher,
     Held in high esteem by his neighbors.

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

• French: moult

• 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

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

• IPA^(key): /mol͈t/

molt m (genitive muilt, nominative plural muilt)

1. ram, wether

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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “molt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

molt m

1. Alternative form of mult